Plate Rollers.
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Belfast Shipyard.

Go to Belfast Shipyard home page.

The image below shows a massive plate rolling machine, this was used to curve flat sheets of steel used to plate the ship hulls. This machine was built by Hugh Smith & Co a UK based company who specialized in plate forming machinery.

It appears the plate rollers are no longer at the shipyard, (July 2008) they have been sold to as far as I understand to Korea.

We can probably look forward to the dry dock which is currently quite busy servicing the offshore wind farm industry becoming a heritage duck pond.

In The Thompson Dock.

Titanic in the Building Gantry.

Titanic.

Go to Belfast Shipyard home page.