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During 1861, the company Harland and Wolff was formed. Mr. Gustav Wilhelm Wolff, born in Hamburg in 1834, along with Mr. Edward James Harland born during 1831, formed the business. In 1858 Harland, who was the general manager at the time, purchased the small shipyard situated on Queen's Island. He purchased the property from Robert Hickson, who was his employer.



Harland at one time bought Hickson's shipyard and made his assistant Wolff a partner in the company. Gustav Wolff was Gustav Schwabe of Hamburg's nephew. He has invested heavily in the Bibby Line. The initial 3 ships which were built by the brand new shipyard were for that line. By being innovative, Harland made the company a successful undertaking. One of his well-known ideas was increasing the overall strength of the ship by replacing the upper wooden decks with iron ones. Also, he was able to increase the capacity of the ship by giving the hulls a flatter bottom and a square cross section.



Harland and Wolff were eventually faced with competitive pressures in regards to building ships. They sought to broaden their portfolio and shift their focus. They decided to focus less on building ships and more on structural engineering and design. The business also diversified into the fields of ship repair, offshore construction projects and competing for additional projects which had to do with construction and metal engineering.



These other interests led to Harland and Wolff building a series of bridges in the Republic of Ireland and in Britain. These bridges consist of the restoration of Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge and the James Joyce Bridge. During the 1980s, with the building of the Foyle Bridge, their first foray into the civil engineering sector happened.



Today, the last shipbuilding project of Harland and Wolff was the MV Anvil Point. This was one of six near identical Point class sealift ships which was constructed to be utilized by the Ministry of Defense. In the year 2003, the ship was launched, after being built under license from German shipbuilders Flensburger, Schiffbau-Gesellschaft.

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