The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff
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The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff

About this book

Harland and Wolff, once acknowledged as the greatest and best-known shipbuilding company in the world, for many years enjoyed a mighty eminence before a gradual descent into near obscurity. This illustrated book, told from the unique perspective of someone who was there at the time, chronicles the history of the organisation from its creation to the present day, from its halcyon days to its present incarnation. Today, the company is no longer involved in shipbuilding, maintaining only a small ship repair and engineering facility and occupying a fraction of its previously vast complex. At its peak Harland and Wolff directly employed over 45, 000 people, with even more in its subsidiary companies. Well-known Harland and Wolff former employee Tom McCluskie, who was a technical consultant to James Cameron on the movie Titanic, sheds light on many little-known facts about the business, delves into the human interest stories, and recounts both the mighty zenith and ignominious demise of this great enterprise.

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Yes, you can access The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff by Tom McCluskie MBE,Tom McCluskie in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technik & Maschinenbau & Wirtschaftsgeschichte. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Genesis of a Disaster
  9. 2 The Emergence of the Port of Belfast
  10. 3 Steaming into the Future
  11. 4 A Partnership Forged in Steel
  12. 5 The Edwardian Era & Titanic
  13. 6 The Great War & the Depression of the 1930s
  14. 7 Bust to Boom Once Again
  15. 8 On the Front Line Again
  16. 9 Happy Days Are Here Again: the ’50s & ’60s
  17. 10 Stormy Seas in the 1970s
  18. 11 Death of a Giant: the ’80s & ’90s
  19. 12 Down But Not Quite Out … Yet
  20. 13 Harland and Wolff Ship List
  21. Copyright