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During 1861, the company Harland and Wolff was established. Mr. Gustav Wilhelm Wolff, born within Hamburg during the year 1834, along with Mr. Edward James Harland born during 1831, formed the company. During 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.



Harland at one time purchased Hickson's shipyard and made his assistant Wolff a partner in the business. Gustav Wolff was Gustav Schwabe of Hamburg's nephew. He has invested heavily in the Bibby Line. The first 3 ships which the brand new shipyard built were for that line. By being inventive, Harland made the company a successful venture. Among his well-known ideas was increasing the overall strength of the ship by using iron for the upper wodden decks. Furthermore, he was able to increase the capacity of the ship by giving the hulls a squarer cross section and a flatter bottom.



The company eventually experienced increasing pressures in the shipbuilding industry causing them to broaden their portfolio and shift their focus. They chose to focus less on shipbuilding and more on structural engineering and design. The business even diversified into the fields of offshore construction projects, ship repair and competing for more projects that had to do with construction and metal engineering.



Harland and Wolff had other interests, such as a series of bridges to be built in Britain and in the Republic of Ireland. These bridges comprise the restoration of the James Joyce Bridge and Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge. During the 1980s, with the construction of the Foyle Bridge, their initial venture into the civil engineering sector took place.



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

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