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List Of Ships Built By Harland And Wolff (1859-1929)
The following is a list of ships that were built by Harland and Wolff, a heavy industrial company which specialises in shipbuilding and offshore construction, and is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as well as having had yards at Govan (1914-1963) and Greenock (1920-1928) in Scotland. The 1,600 ships are listed in order of the date of their launch. This list covers the period 1859-1929. 1850s * (Yard No.1), cargo ship for J Bibby & Sons, launched 30 July 1859, completed 14 August 1859, renamed ''Landana'' in 1880 and later ''Tarapaca'', wrecked in 1894. * (Yard No.2), cargo ship for J Bibby & Sons, launched 12 November 1859, completed 24 November 1859. 1860s * (Yard No.3), cargo ship for J Bibby & Sons, launched 26 March 1860, completed 1 April 1860. * (Yard No.5 - note Yard No.4 was never built), full-rigged ship for J. P. Corry & Co. Launched 1 September 1860, completed 15 September 1860. *''Miranda'' (Yard No.6), yacht for Mr T Yeats, launched 211 June 1860. * (Yard No.7), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harland And Wolff
Harland & Wolff is a British shipbuilding company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It specialises in ship repair, shipbuilding and offshore construction. Harland & Wolff is famous for having built the majority of the ocean liners for the White Star Line, including ''Olympic''-class trio – , and HMHS ''Britannic''. Outside of White Star Line, other ships that have been built include the Royal Navy's ; Royal Mail Line's ''Andes''; Shaw, Savill & Albion's ; Union-Castle's ; and P&O's . Harland and Wolff's official history, ''Shipbuilders to the World'', was published in 1986. As of 2011, the expanding offshore wind power industry had been the prime focus, and 75% of the company's work was based on offshore renewable energy. Early history Harland & Wolff was formed in 1861 by Edward James Harland (1831–95) and Hamburg-born Gustav Wilhelm Wolff (1834–1913; he came to the UK at age 14). In 1858 Harland, then general manager, bought the small shipyard on ''Quee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Hecla (1878)
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Hecla'', after the volcano Hekla in Iceland. * was a 10-gun bomb vessel purchased in 1797. She participated in the Battle of Copenhagen (1801) and was broken up in 1813 * , launched in 1815, was a bomb vessel; she was later converted to an exploration ship and was commanded by William Edward Parry during his exploration of the Arctic * was a 4-gun wooden paddle sloop launched in 1839, run aground off Gibraltar on 23 January 1855 and sold in 1863 * was a torpedo boat carrier/depot ship purchased in 1878, modernised in 1912 and sold in 1926 * was a destroyer depot ship launched in March 1940 and sunk off Casablanca on 12 November 1942 by the * HMS ''Hecla'' was a repair ship launched in 1944 and transferred to the United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibby Line
Bibby Line is a UK company concerned with shipping and marine operations. Its parent company, Bibby Line Group Limited, can be traced back to John Bibby who founded the company in 1807. The company along with the group is based in Liverpool. Since 2007, Bibby Line Group and its employees have donated over £10 million and thousands of volunteering hours to over 1,000 charitable causes. History The Bibby Line was founded in 1807 by the first John Bibby (1775–1840). It has operated in most areas of shipping throughout its 200-year history, and claims to be the oldest independently owned deep sea shipping line in the world. It was one of the first business in the world to fit its entire fleet with radio, by the British based Radio Communication Company. Along with other British ship owners, it endured hard economic conditions in the 1970s and 1980s, but survived through diversification into floating accommodation. The group diversified in the 1980s into separate divisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Runic (1889)
SS ''Imo'' was a merchant steamship that was built in 1889 to carry livestock and passengers, and converted in 1912 into a whaling factory ship. She was built as ''Runic'', renamed ''Tampican'' in 1895, ''Imo'' in 1912 and ''Guvernøren'' in 1920. In 1917 the Belgian Relief Commission chartered ''Imo'' to take humanitarian supplies to German-occupied Belgium. On 6 December 1917 she was involved in a collision in Halifax Harbour with the French cargo ship , which was carrying munitions. The resultant fire aboard ''Mont Blanc'' caused the historic and catastrophic Halifax Explosion, which levelled the Richmond District in the North End of the city. Although ''Imo''s superstructure was severely damaged by the blast, the ship was repaired and returned to service in 1918. The ship was renamed ''Guvernøren'' in 1920. On 30 Nevember 1921 she ran aground off the Falkland Islands and was abandoned. Building and owners Harland & Wolff built the ship in Belfast as yard number 211. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Arcadia (1887)
A number of ships have been named ''Arcadia'', including: Merchant ships *, a passenger liner built by Harland and Wolff for P&O, in service 1888–1915 *, a cargo ship built by Harland and Wolff for Hamburg America Line The Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG), known in English as the Hamburg America Line, was a transatlantic shipping enterprise established in Hamburg, in 1847. Among those involved in its development were prominent citi ..., in service 1897–1926 *, a cargo ship in service with Hamburg America Line 1922–1934 * (1929), a steamboat that operated in the state of Washington, United States *, a passenger liner and cruise ship of P&O, in service 1954–1979 *, a cruise ship in service under that name with P&O Cruises 1997–2003 *, a cruise ship of P&O cruises, in service since 2005 Naval ships *, a patrol boat possibly in commission during 1918 *, a troop transport in commission from January to September 1919 *, a destroyer tender in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Oceana (1887)
SS ''Oceana'' was a P&O passenger liner and cargo vessel, launched in 1887 by Harland and Wolff of Belfast and completed in 1888. Originally assigned to carry passengers and mail between London and Australia, she was later assigned to routes between London and British India. On 16 March 1912 the ship collided in the Strait of Dover with the , a German-registered four-masted steel-hulled barque. As a result ''Oceana'' sank off Beachy Head on the East Sussex coast, with the loss of 17 lives. Construction Ordered by Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast as Yard No. 201, the vessel was launched on 17 September 1887, and handed over from fitting out after running trials on 26 February 1888. The ship had a beam of , four masts, two funnels and a single propeller. Her three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine produced , giving her a top speed of . She had accommodation for 250 first class passengers and 159 second clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TSS Anglesey (1887)
TSS ''Anglesey'' was a steam turbine cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1888 to 1910. History She was built by Harland and Wolff for the London and North Western Railway in 1888 and put on the Holyhead – Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ... route. She was one of a trio of ships built over four years for this route, all of a similar size. The other ships were and . On 25 November 1888, a fire broke out whilst she was on a voyage from Dublin to Holyhead. Cargo to the value of £2,000 was destroyed. She was disposed of in 1910. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Anglesey 1887 ships Steamships Ships built in Belfast Ships of the London and North Western Railway Ships built by Harland and Wolff Ship fires Maritime incidents in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Bramble (1886)
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Bramble''. An eighth was planned but never completed: * was a 14-gun ship, formerly an Ostend privateer. She was captured in 1656, converted to a fireship in 1665 and expended against the Dutch in 1667. * was a 10-gun schooner launched in Bermuda. She had a relatively brief and uneventful career before the Royal Navy sold her in December 1815. She became the mercantile ''Bramble'' (or ''Bamble''), and was last listed in 1824. * was a 10-gun cutter launched in 1822. She was converted to a survey vessel in 1842, lent to the Colonial Department in 1853 as a diving-bell vessel, and sold in 1876. *HMS ''Bramble'' was to have been a wooden screw gunboat laid down in 1861 and cancelled in 1863. * was a gunboat launched in 1886 at Harland and Wolff. The book ‘ The Cruise of the “Alerte”’ by E. F. Knight describes how she visited Trindade and Martin Vaz in 1889. She was renamed HMS ''Cockatrice'' in 1896 and was sold in 190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London And North Western Railway
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. In the late 19th century, the L&NWR was the largest joint stock company in the United Kingdom. In 1923, it became a constituent of the London, Midland and Scottish (LMS) railway, and, in 1948, the London Midland Region of British Railways: the LNWR is effectively an ancestor of today's West Coast Main Line. History The company was formed on 16 July 1846 by the amalgamation of the Grand Junction Railway, London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway. This move was prompted, in part, by the Great Western Railway's plans for a railway north from Oxford to Birmingham. The company initially had a network of approximately , connecting London with Birmingham, Crewe, Chester, Liverpool and Manchester. The headquarters were at Euston railway station. As traffic increased, it was greatly expanded with the opening in 1849 of the Great Hall, designed by P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TSS Irene (1885)
TSS ''Irene'' was a steam turbine cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1885 to 1906.Railway and Other Steamers, Duckworth. 1962 History She was built by Harland and Wolff for the London and North Western Railway in 1885 and put on the Holyhead – Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ... route. She was one of a trio of ships built over 4 years for this route, all of a similar size. The other ships were the and . On 12 September 1889, ''Irene'' collided with off Holyhead whilst of a voyage from Holyhead to Dublin. Both vessels were severely damaged. ''Irene'' assisted ''Banshee'' in to Holyhead. She was disposed of in 1906. References 1885 ships Steamships Ships built in Belfast Ships of the London and North Western Railw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belfast Steamship Company
The Belfast Steamship Company provided shipping services between Belfast in Ireland (later Northern Ireland) and Liverpool in England from 1852 to 1975.''Sea breezes: the ship lovers' digest'', Volume 42. Pacific Steam Navigation Company. 1968. History The company started life in 1824 as the Liverpool and Belfast Steam Packet Company. operated by Langtry & Herdman. They began a steam ship service from Belfast to Liverpool.''The Belfast and Province of Ulster Directory for 1852''. Vessels introduced were as follows: *PS Chieftain, 1826 *PS Corsair, 1827 *PS Falcon, 1835 *PS Reindeer, 1838 *PS Sea-King, 1845 *PS Blenheim, 1848 About 1830 the Dublin Steam Packet Company began a weekly service in competition. On 31 January 1852 the Liverpool and Belfast Steam Packet Company was registered as The Belfast Steamship Company Ltd. In 1859, it expanded and absorbed the Cork Steamship Company and in 1866 it absorbed the Londonderry Steamboat Company. It was absorbed into Coast Lines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Algerine (1880)
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Algerine'': * was a 10-gun schooner launched in 1810 and wrecked in 1813. *HMS ''Algerine'' was originally a 12-gun gun-brig, formerly the French ''Pierre Cézar''. She was captured in 1808 and named . In 1814, she was converted into a 14-gun cutter under the name HMS ''Algerine'' and was sold in 1818. * was a 10-gun brig-sloop under the command of Commander Charles Wemyss when she was lost off Hydra in a squall in early 1826.Hepper, David J. (1994) ''British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859''. East Sussex: Jean Boudriot. * was a 10-gun launched in 1829 and sold in 1844. * was an wooden screw gunboat launched in 1857, sold into mercantile service in 1872 and broken up in 1894. * was an built by Harland and Wolff, launched in 1880, and displacing 835 tons. She was sold in 1892. * was a sloop launched in 1895, displacing 1050 tons. She was on the China Station during the Boxer Rebellion The Boxer Rebellion, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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