Harland & Wolff Ltd

Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries Limited

Type	Private limited company
Industry	Shipbuilding Civil Engineering Marine Engineering Offshore construction
Founded	11 April 1861 (1861-04-11) 1977 (nationalised) 1989 (privatised)
Headquarters	Belfast, County Antrim Northern Ireland
Key people	Gustav Wilhelm Wolff Edward Harland Thomas Andrews Sir John Parker William Pirrie Fred Olsen
Owner	Fred. Olsen Energy
Number of employees	500
Website	www.harland-wolff.com

Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries is a heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Harland & Wolff is famous for having built the majority of the ships intended for the White Star Line. Well known ships built by Harland & Wolff include the Olympic Class trio: RMS Titanic, RMS Olympic and RMS Britannic, the Royal Navy's HMS Belfast, Royal Mail Line's Andes, Shaw Savill's Southern Cross, Union-Castle's RMS Pendennis Castle, and P&O's Canberra. Harland and Wolff's official history, Shipbuilders to the World, was published in 1986.

As of 2011, the expanding offshore wind power industry has been the prime focus, and 75% of the company's work is based on offshore renewable energy.

Harland & Wolff was formed in 1861 by Edward James Harland (1831–95) and Hamburg-born Gustav Wilhelm Wolff (1834–1913, came to the UK from age 14). In 1858 Harland, then general manager, bought the small shipyard on Queen's Island from his employer Robert Hickson.