Tanker Order for Harland and Wolff

Details

Location

Belfast

Year

1965

Date

Production 01/05/1965

Length

01min 46sec

Audio

sound

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI)

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

UTV reporter Robin Walsh reports from the waterside at Harland and Wolff shipyard on the news that the yard had just confirmed a very lucrative deal to build a new tanker for the Bergersen Line of Norway. At over 180,000 tonnes and 1,000 feet in length it would be over twice as big as their previous largest tanker and would be the largest ship of any kind they had built, bigger even than Titanic or Canberra. The work would provide job security at the yard in troubled times of dwindling orders.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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