Sir Fredrick Ernest Rebbeck

Reference code: HWA.REBB
Level of description: Fonds
Title: Sir Fredrick Ernest Rebbeck
Scope and content: Sir Fredrick Rebbeck was managing director and chairman of Harland & Wolff until his retirement in 1962, with this archive containing his books (catalogued separately under Books), periodicals and papers.
Detailed contents: Photographs of ships and shipbuilding at Harland & Wolff taken by W Ralston Ltd, W. Haig Parry, John Doig, Frank & Sons including; the Goliath crane, Queens Shipyard Beam Shed, Derrick crane, Cantilever crane, engine room girder, welded engine seat & steel mast, slip with hydraulic gantries, bulkhead being erected, monotower crane, fore-end unit for cargo liner, hammer head crane, shear legs at fitting out basin, funnel being lifted onto RMS Andes, view of new welding shop at Belfast H&W yards, train of main engine parts hauled by a diesel locomotive, weighted steel boxes and London graving dock. Periodicals include: The Syren and Shipbuilding Illustrated with a H&W note affixed (Mar. 1953); Transactions of the Institution of Engineers & Shipbuilders in Scotland, volume 87, part I (Nov. 1943); Transactions of the Institution of Marine Engineers, 1921-22; The Compass, Mar./Apr. 1969 issue; Maiden Voyage magazine (undated); Shipbuilding and Shipping Record (Nov. 1959); The Institution of Marine Engineers, Transactions, International Conference issue (Oct. 1962); The Syren and Shipbuilding Illustrated (Dec. 1948)(May 1955)(Apr. 1952)(Dec. 1955); ‘Recent Developments in Marine Diesels, by H. Carstensen (1956); The Syren and Shipbuilding Illustrated, New Year number (1950, 1952, 1955, 1959); The Syren Financial Year Book (1958/59); B&W Bladet in Norwegian (Jul 1959); Shipping and Transport magazine (Aug. 1959); Engineering, an illustrated weekly journal (Sep. 1952); ‘Shipbuilding at home and abroad’ magazine (Nov. 1947); The Compass, Sep-Oct 1959 & May-June 1960; Also: Harland and Wolff Limited picture book; a for sale brochure for South Street, Scotstoun, Glasgow equipped engineering works; a ‘Glasgow’ card folder originally owned by Govan S’yd in 1912; photographs of Glasgow and shipyards (1967); a foldout plan of the River Clyde (1912).