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



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 were built by the brand new shipyard were for that line. By being innovative, Harland made the business a successful undertaking. One of his well-known suggestions was increasing the ship's overall strength by utilizing iron for the upper wodden decks. As well, he was able to increase the ship's capacity by giving the hulls a flatter bottom and a square cross section.



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



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



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

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