I was taken to see the Canberra launch by my Dad who was a boilermaker on it. I remember it as a "big white boat"...and I was just under 3 years old......
my dad was a riveter, then a caulker when they went to welding, he worked on Canberra and many other ships, ended up in Peru after working on the Reina Del Mar as the Peruvian government wanted their own shipbuilding industry, so who do you turn to? the best shipbuilders in the world. I followed on the road to H&W as did many young men then. was a welder for over 30 years, hard times but I would not have missed it. I look out my bedroom window and see two great cranes, the shadow of the greatest shipbuilding company ever.
My late dad worked on the Canberra, he was a blacksmith who started his apprenticeship in 1945, aged 15 and worked there all his life.
I was taken to see the Canberra launch by my Dad who was a boilermaker on it. I remember it as a "big white boat"...and I was just under 3 years old......
my dad was a riveter, then a caulker when they went to welding, he worked on Canberra and many other ships, ended up in Peru after working on the Reina Del Mar as the Peruvian government wanted their own shipbuilding industry, so who do you turn to? the best shipbuilders in the world. I followed on the road to H&W as did many young men then. was a welder for over 30 years, hard times but I would not have missed it.
I look out my bedroom window and see two great cranes, the shadow of the greatest shipbuilding company ever.
This is really good footage, cool video!
Actually works! Wow and not even a scam.
what a bueatifull song too
im proud to be related to edward harland
Could I use some of this footage for a GCSE art project do you think? thnx
I thought Harland and Wolff didn't christen ships 🤔