Harland and Wolff

Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries Limited

Type	Private Limited Company
Industry	Civil Engineering Marine Engineering Shipbuilding Offshore construction
Founded	11 April 1861 Nationalised 1977 Privatised 1989
Headquarters	Belfast, County Antrim Northern Ireland
Key people	Edward Harland Gustav Wilhelm Wolff William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie Thomas Andrews Sir John Parker Fred Olsen Archie Price
Owner	Fred. Olsen Energy
Number of employees	500
Website	www.harland-wolff.com

Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Harland & Wolff is most famous for having built all of the ships intended for the White Star Line including RMS Titanic. Other well known ships built by Harland & Wolff include Titanic's sister ships 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, in the UK from age 14). In 1858 Harland, then general manager, bought the small shipyard on Queen's Island from his employer Robert Hickson.