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In 1861, the company Harland and Wolff was formed. Mr. Gustav Wilhelm Wolff, born within Hamburg during the year 1834, and Mr. Edward James Harland born during the year 1831, established the company. In the year 1858 the general manager during the time, Harland, purchased the small shipyard on Queen's Island. He purchased the property from his employer, Richard Hickson.



When Harland purchased Hickson's shipyard, he then made his assistant Wolff a partner in the company. Gustav Wilhelm Wolff was the nephew of Gustav Schwabe of Hamburg. He has invested mostly in the Bibby Line. The first 3 ships which the brand new shipyard made were for that line. By being innovative, Harland made the company a successful venture. Amongst his famous ideas was increasing the overall strength of the ship by replacing the upper wooden decks with iron ones. As well, 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 eventually experienced competitive pressures in regards to building ships. They sought to broaden their portfolio and shift their focus. They decided to concentrate less on shipbuilding and more on structural engineering and design. The company also diversified into the areas of offshore construction projects, ship repair and competing for additional projects that had to do with construction and metal engineering.



Harland and Wolff had other interests, like a series of bridges to be constructed in the Republic of Ireland and in Britain. These bridges include the restoration of both Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge and the James Joyce Bridge. In the 1980s, with the construction of the Foyle Bridge, their first venture into the civil engineering sector happened.



The MV Anvil Point was the last shipbuilding project of Harland and Wolff to date. This was among six almost identical Point class sealift ships that was constructed for use by the Ministry of Defense. During the year 2003, the ship was launched, after being constructed under license from German shipbuilders Flensburger, Schiffbau-Gesellschaft.

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