>>1630497 (l/b)
>>1629870 #RAISETHETITANIC
>>1629894 #SINKTHEFED
>>1630532 agree.
>much potential there
re: Titanic – from post on "Sir" John Parker, chairman of Carnival Cruise Lines in US/UK, National Grid in UK, on board of Bank of England, and recently sold RMC Concrete Group to CEMEX.
>>1628520 #2048
> a long way from his first high-profile job when, after qualifying as a naval architect and working his way up to chief executive at the Austin & Pickersgill shipyard, he was parachuted back to his roots at Harland & Wolff, builder of the Titanic, to oversee its privatisation
>https://infogalactic.com/info/Harland_and_Wolff
Harland & Wolff is most famous for having built all of the ships intended for the White Star Line including the ill-fated RMS Titanic.[1]
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 & 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).
When Harland died in 1895, William James Pirrie became the chairman of the company until his death in 1924. Thomas Andrews also became the general manager and head of the draughting department in 1907.
It was in this period that the company built Olympic and her sister ships Titanic and Britannic between 1909 and 1914,
commissioning Sir William Arrol & Co. to construct a massive twin gantry and slipway structure for the project.