Harland and Wolff - Shipbuilding and Engineering Works

Harland and Wolff

The Harland and Wolff shipyard is a crucial part of our history and our future - a national asset for UK manufacturing with world-class infrastructure and workforce, and a crucial part of the social fabric of Belfast for more than 150 years.

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Dunchers and Dungarees

The yard produced men of steel - hard, self-educated, working class heroes, in their time, Belfast-built vessels and their countless innovations were often the first, the biggest, the earliest, the fastest, the most luxurious - the best.

During the second world war, the yard played an important role in the war effort builting over 250 naval and merchant ships. In addition to those new builds, the company repaired or converted over 22,000 ships. Employment at Belfast rose to over 30,000 during the war years, with over 20,000 employed at other locations throughout the UK.

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No. 35 - War Effort By December 1944 there were almost 31,000 employees at Harland and Wolff. Queen's Island launched 170 Admiralty and merchant ships between 1939 and 1945. This included 40 corvettes, 27 minesweepers, 11 frigates and three aircraft carriers. The firm also repaired 30,000 vessels and manufactured 13 million aircraft parts, over 500 tanks, thousands of field guns and hundreds of searchlights.

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