1955:
Walking the
streets of
Belfast, shipbuilding capital of the world
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The cargo ship Foylebank under construction at the Harland & Wolff shipyard. The ship was later renamed Patroclos.
IMage: Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland emerged as one of the
shipbuilding capitals of the world.
The sprawling Harland & Wolff shipyards cranked out thousands of Navy cruisers, monitors, aircraft carriers and civilian ocean liners, including one famously
massive and ill-fated one.
In 1955,
Picture Post photographer Bert Hardy visited the city, wandering the bustling shipyards and lively streets.
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