Harland & Wolff

Reference code: HOYFM.ACL2023.26
Level of description: Fonds
Title: Harland & Wolff
Scope and content: Four bound volumes containing particulars of ships built by Harland & Wolff. The information recorded includes ship number; date; dimensions on length, breadth, depth; tonnage; coefficients; draughts and weights; capacities; C.G. hull and machinery; scantlings; accommodation; engine work particulars and special notes. List begins with The Venetian (1859) and continues in sequence through to St. David (1980).
One volume marked Displacement with notes and illustrated displacement in tons/draught of water in feet tables for Thursby (100) to Salamanca (380)
Three volumes (one marked Designing Office on spine), containing Approximate Particulars for Ships, Machinery, Passenger accommodation, for freeboard, with an alphabetical list of ships beginning Ameer - Yorkshire, Aragon - Westralia, Assaye -Yacht Admiralty.
2 bound minute books (meeting of Directors held at Queen's Island, 1938-1947, 1958-1966)
1 bound volume (meeting of Finance Committee, 1962-1966), with related correspondence and insert containing A Short History of Harland and Wolff, Limited. Belfast (1969)
2 scale plan of works and part of harbour, Oct 1950, Dec 1963.
Signed document about Harland and Wolff dated 11th September 1945.
Letter from South & East Belfast Trust with Indenture of Apprenticeship for Mr Robert James Johnston.
Drawing Office A/S Plans.
First fitting and maintenance of Escort Oilers Equipment, 1944.
One folder on capacities, hydrostatic particulars, stability, flooding, tonnage, structural strength and weights, speed power and form, launching and docking.
One folder listing ships 1377 Hector - 1717 St David with owners, date, class, launch, dimensions, and tonnage.
Book marked Tonnage No.4 for 426 War Beetle - 536 Acavus.
Three books marked Ships PARS, 50-136, 137-211 and 212-300.
Book with boiler, and tank particulars.
Book marked Freeboard for 300 Aracataca-536 Final from Lloyds received 17/12/34.
Lloyds Register of British and Foreign shipping rules and regulations 1908-1909.
Defence of Merchant Shipping shipowners handbook.
S.S. Duke of York stability data.
A film reel of deflection of hull during launching.
Fowler Jubilee Magnum extra long scale calculator.
Draughts and weights No.2 book for 346 Ionic - 482 Glorious.
Dimension book contract no.383-612.
Hull specification Single Screw Tanker book.
Practical Engineer pocket-book 1902.
Correspondence from W.S. Clayton Greene regarding drawings of the port engines of the S.S. Majestic.
Hamburg-Amerika Line book stamped Harland and Wolff Limited (German)
National Identity Card and Admit Bearer H&W ship card for Joseph Bell.
Report of Committee appointed to consider spacing and construction of watertight bulkheads 1912 reprint stamped Harland and Wolff.
Pamphlet on design, building and launch of Lusitania. Stamped 30 May 1907. Pamphlet New Ships for the Merchant Marine H&W stamp; Journal de la Marine Marchande (H&W stamp)
Card invites to ship launches 1957-1966, including Hon. Mrs Terence O'Neill, Mrs A.B.D. Faulkner.
Handwritten annual reports, and balance sheets 1889-1900.
Directors Report and Statement of Accounts 1924.
Pamphlets For Your Information & Harland and Wolff in the Computer Age.
Built ships list compiled by W.Holden (copies)
Transport advertisements (copies)
Merchant shipping clippings/articles (copies)
Three Directors meeting attendance books with signatures 1936-1953, 1964-1971, 1971-1977.
Visitors book for Harland and Wolff Recreation and Athletic Association, Pirrie Park, Belfast from opening in 1923 until 1931 with signatures including Pirrie.
Drawing office book containing correspondence from W.[H] Cooper, Chief Draughtsman, 1880.
Journal article on The Georgic.
Photographs of Ceramic.
White Star Line booklet published to commemorate the launch of the Olympic.
Ring bound Ship Particulars from Venetian (1859) to 1720 British Steel (1984); 296 Cestrian (1896) to 1040G Blackpool (1939).
Large size postcard Olympic fitting out, 1911.
Wood salvaged from? and plated RMS Olympic 1911-1935.
Donation by Bryce Wilson of blueprints of King Line ships, constructed by Harland and Wolff, originally belonging to Captain Robert Ritch.
Correspondence on Admiralty, Union-Castle contracts for steam cargo tramp, mail steamships, the 1940s.
Black and white photos mounted on cards of ships at Musgrave Yard, including Santos, Waybank, Reina del Mar, and Texaco Maracaibo.
Iron and Steel Department book on Lanarkshire Steel Company Limited.
Engine Work Queens Island diary 1880 - 1884.
Boilermakers, foundry workers, allowance.
Two manuals on built diesel engines 1960s.
Launch of T.S.S. Pendennis Castle for the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co., Ltd table plan, 1957.
Blue folder containing brochures Harland and Wolff: A Major Force in World Shipbuilding; Europe's Most Progressive Shipbuilder; McCaughan memorandums on future of Divis; H&W Ship Plan Collection and management of collection documents; photograph of oil tankers Coastal Corpus Christi and Coastal Hercules; handwritten notes on ships completed at H&W; a typed document Titanic, An Introduction to the Photographic Record of Her Construction, by McCaughan and Chris Lundy; correspondence between McCaughan and Lundy.
Three lever arch files on H&W ship details and history (handwritten)
Lavinia Johnston donated papers from her father, who trained as a premium engineer pupil at Harland & Wolff (approximately 1916–1921) and later qualified as a Navel Architect. Contains: photographs of Richard Morton Lee; photos of various ships, including The City of London, Hildebrand, Milwaukee, Servia, Oak Branch, Britannia, Kilmallie, Austral, Barquentine Dunure, Clyde, Peter Redale; H&W rules for pupils; a handwritten book of drawings; background and CV information; a letter from the Royal Naval Depot; letters and testimonials; a certificate from the Municipal Technical Institute; and a signed copy of the Official Secrets Act. Two items, a large pencil drawing of the engine room of the ‘Columbella’ and a small watercolour painting of a dazzle ship, are stored at HOYFM.2015.947.1 and HOYFM.2015.947.2, Entry Form: 2345.
Collection of R.M.S. Arlanza launch memorabilia from April 1960, including brochures, specifications, invites, programme, table menus and photographs.
Ship tenders: proposals sent by Harland and Wolff. Thirteen bound volumes, 1937-1964.
Large size illustrated diagram, 'Coasting Vessels General Particulars.'