STEEL SHIPS
&
IRON MEN

Shipbuilding in Belfast, 1894-1912

Michael McCAUGHAN

Ulster Folk & Transport Museum (1989)

This book contains the best examples of photographs of ships and shipbuilding at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast, 1894-1912. The work of the prominent photographer, Robert John Welch, they cover the whole range of shipbuilding stages from keel laying to fitting out the passenger accommodation. A wide variety of ships are included from the famous Titanic and Olympic to smaller, less well known craft. The book also contains a full list of the Harland and Wolff photographic collection, 1894-1912, now housed at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.