shipbuilding

My grandfather William Poole (1993-1957) worked on the building of the Titanic whilst an apprentice engineer at Harland & Wolff. I don’t think there are any surviving records of apprentices at Harland & Wolff of that period. After being in the Royal Engineers during WW1, he joined the Merchant...

Buffalo (New York) Evening News, 5 May 1923

Harland & Wolff may be best known as the builder of the ill-fated transatlantic liner RMS Titanic, but these days its sights are set on somewhat different markets. It has just been awarded an initial contract worth approximately GBP 8.5 million (about $10.7 million) by Cory Group. The contract...

My sincere apologies if this has been posted before. I thought some of you might enjoy this short film, shot in technicolour, about shipbuilding on the Clyde made in 1960. "Seawards The Great Ships" Full record for 'SEAWARDS THE GREAT SHIPS' (2230) - Moving Image Archive catalogue At the...

Hello everybody, sorry for resurrecting this old thread, but I'm researching about the Second Battle of the Atlantic and I was wondering if anybody knew where to find the monthly shipyard output of Great Britain and United States during the Secon World War. I read somewehere that in order to...