Harland & Wolff: Designs from the Shipbuilding Empire

Front Cover and Spine, Harland & Wolff: Designs from the Shipbuilding Empire by Tom McCluskie, 1998. GGA Image ID # 204c0193f7

Synopisis

Harland & Wolf: Designs from the Shipbuilding Empire is an illustrated history of the partnership, which began in 1861 in Belfast and still survives today. An introductory overview of the company, its shipyards, and its works is followed by 44 detailed drawings of the ships, from the earliest sailing vessels to the great liners such as the Canberra and the Southern Cross.

From the Dust Jacket Flaps

One of the world's most enduring and respected shipbuilding companies, Harland & Wolff has been at the forefront of innovative ship design for the last 130 years. The list of vessels the company designed and built includes famous names such as Titanic, Olympic, HMS Belfast, Southern Cross, and Canberra.

During the mid-nineteenth century, ship design underwent a dramatic development with the emergence of steam propulsion, which gradually replaced the traditional sail on merchant, passenger, and fighting ships.

The need to encompass this new technology led Edward Harland, already a successful designer and builder, to form a partnership with Gustav Wilhelm Wolff.

Together, their progressive ideas on ship design challenged the shipowners' conservative views. Since their first steam-and-sail vessels, the striking Grecian and Italian of 1861, their innovative approach has been constantly in demand.

The archives of this great Irish company have been fully accessed for the first time in its history to amass designs and plans used to create some of the most spectacular vessels.

Beautifully drawn and painted, these highly detailed plans and the informative text accompanying them provide a wealth of detail for both the modeler and ship enthusiast, covering the drawings themselves, their use, and the ships they depict.

After surviving two world wars, the demise of the great liners, and the rise and fall of the giant supertankers needed for an oil-hungry world, Harland & Wolff is still going strong and has become a shipbuilding legend. The forty-four plans selected here show the reasons behind this phenomenal success.

Contents

Introduction

• Yard No 5: Jane Porter
• Yard Nos 7 & 8: Grecian and Italian
• Yard Nos 14 & 15: Castilian and Catalonian
• Yard No 18: Worrall
• Yard No 23: Olano
• Yard No 26: Waipara
• Yard No 27: Baroda
• Yard No 30: Dharswar
• Yard No 31: Douro
• Yard Nos 38 & 39: Gypsy Queen and Fairy Queen
• Yard No 44: Broughton
• Yard No 56: The Woodlawn
• Yard No 58: Juliet
• Yard Nos 68, 70 & 71: Bavarian, Bulgarian, and Bohemian
• Yard No 75: Baltic
• Yard No 78: Camel
• Yard No 79: Celtic
• Yard No 84: Ferry No 1
• Yard No 105: Lord Cairns
• Yard No 107: Thurland Castle
• Yard No 108: Steelfield
• Yard No 109: Gladys
• Yard Nos 110, 111 & 115: Slieve More, Slieve Baum & Slieve Roe
• Yard Nos 113 & 114: Star of Italy and Star of France
• Yard Nos 135 & 136: White Head and Black Head
• Yard Nos 138 & 139: British Queen & British King
• Yard Nos 141 & 142: Arabic and Coptic
• Yard Nos 143 & 144: Winnebah and Akassa
• Yard No 148: Lord Downshire

Index

Back Cover, Harland & Wolff: Designs from the Shipbuilding Empire, 1998. GGA Image ID # 204c80dd9e

Harland & Wolff Ships 1-150

1. Venetian
2. Sicilian
3. Syrian
4. unnamed
5. Jane Porter
6. Miranda
7. Grecian
8. Italian
9. Egyptian
10. Ballymurtagh
11. Dalmatian
12. Arabian
13. Persian
14. Castilian
15. Catalonian
16. Star of Erin
17. Recife
18. Worrall
19. Alexandra
20. Star of Denmark
21. Victoria Nyanza
22. Palestine
23. Olano
24. Star of Scotia
25. Kitty of Coleraine
26. Waipara
27. Baroda
28. Volador
29. Star of Albion
30. Dharwar
31. Douro
32. British Peer
33. Sesostris
34. unnamed
35. unnamed
36. unnamed
37. Pilot
38. Fairy Queen
39. Gypsy Queen
40. Boyne
41. Annie Sharp
42. Duddon
43. Guarani
44. Broughton
45. Candahar
46. Tenasserim
47. Isrian
48. Iberian
49. Illyrian
50. unnamed
51. Black Diamond
52. Camel Corsanego
53. HMS Lynx
54. Hebe
55. Star of Persia
56. Woodlawn
57. Star of Greece
58. Juliet
59. Elaine
60. Lady Cairns
61. unnamed
62. unnamed
63. unnamed
64. unnamed
65. unnamed
66. unnamed
67. Carry
68. Bavarian
69. Historian
70. Bulgarian
71. Bohemian
72. unnamed
73. Oceanic
74. Atlantic
75. Pacific Baltic
76. Republic
77. Adriatic
78. Camel
79. Artic Celtic
80. Gaelic
81. Belgic
82. Star of Germany
83. Hellenic Britannic
84. Ferry No. 1
85. Germanic
86. Star of Bengal
87. Belfast
88. star of Russia
89. Majestic
90. Aglaia
91. East Croft
92. Connaught Ranger
93. Millie
94. Katie
95. Fiji
96. Pizarro
97. unnamed
98. unnamed
99. unnamed
100. Princess Beatrice
101. Thursby
102. unnamed
103. Lord Cairns
104. unnamed
105. Mousmie
106. E. J. Harland
107. Thurland Castle
108. Steelfield
109. Gladys
110. Slieve More
111. Slieve Bawn
112. The Logan
113. Star of Italy
114. Star of France
115. Slieve Roe
116. River Lagan
117. HMS Heela
118. British Empire
119. Faugh-a-Ballagh
120. G. W. Wolff
121. Nubia
122. Shahjeban
123. Shahzada
124. Maharaja
125. Maharani
126. Fair Head
127. British Crown
128. Galgorn Castle
129. Lord Dufferin
130. Dawpool
131. HMS Algerine
132. Holmhurst
133. Winnebah Peshwa
134. Rosetta
135. White Head
136. Black Head
137. British Merchant
138. British Queen
139. British King
140. Woodhopper
141. Arabic
142. Coptic
143. Minnehaha Winnehah
144. Akassa
145. Shannon
146. Garfield
147. British Prince
148. Lord Downshire
149. Mandingo
150. Wilter H. Wilson

About the Author

Thomas Godfrey McCluskie, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1950, is the son of a fifth-generation shipyard worker. He joined Harland & Wolff as a message boy in 1970, became apprentice fitter in 1971, and in 1974 moved into the Naval Drawing Office.

In 1980 he was appointed Administrator, overseeing all the operations of the Drawing Office, and by 1986 was Administrative Manager, a post which carried special responsibilities including promoting the company's history and developing associated businesses.

In April 1997 he was made an honorary member of the Titanic Historical Society of America. Tom is also a Governor of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute and an associate member of the Royal Institute of Marine Engineers.

Tom was Harland & Wolff's Technical Liaison to 20th Century Fox in the production of the James Cameron film TITANIC.

GG Archives Catalog Listing

• Title: Harland & Wolff : designs from the shipbuilding empire
• Author: Tom McCluskie
• Publisher : Conway Maritime Press , London , 1998
• Description: 160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 29 cm
• ISBN: 9780851777672, 0851777678
• OCLC Number: 42701288
• Subjects: Harland and Wolff. Harland and Wolff History. Shipbuilding History. Naval architecture. Naval architecture Northern Ireland. Belfast Shipbuilding.
• Dewey class no.: VM298.5-301 1998
• Type of material: Book