William Pirrie (1st Viscount Pirrie)

Reference code: HOYFM.ACL2023.36
Level of description: Fonds
Title: William Pirrie (1st Viscount Pirrie)
Scope and content: Series of typed letters between Johnston Hughes (Weidner, Hopkins & Co, Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and William James Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Chairman of Harland and Wolff, shipbuilders. The letters reference repairs, tenders and launch plans for several ships including Kwarra, Indian, Olympic and Valiant There are photographs of the Kwarra and drawings and rubbing on suggested riveting for the Indian. The letters are signed with marginalia. Vanity Fair illustration of Pirrie (1903)