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13%OFFTom McCluskie - No Place For A Boy: A Life at Harland & Wolff - 9780752442167 - V9780752442167
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No Place For A Boy: A Life at Harland & Wolff

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Tom McCluskie followed his father and was apprenticed into Harland & Wolff's shipyard on Queen's Island, Belfast. Harland and Wolff was a hard working environment, and also dangerous but Tom accepted this as the price to pay for working at such a famous shipyard, the one that had built the Titanic and also the Canberra. Slowly working his way up through determination and hard work, Tom became passionate about the history of the yard and, at a time when no-one in H & W cared, he managed to secure the company's archive and was responsible for having it deposited at ... Read more

Tom traces the history of one of the most famous of all shipbuilding companies, from the arrival of Edward Harland in Belfast in 1854 through the building of the Titanic to the company in its present-day form. In doing so he transports us back to the glamorous 'golden age' of shipping and gives an intriguing new perspective on British industry. A regular speaker at Titanic conventions worldwide, Tom has written numerous books on the Titanic and her two sister ships.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The History Press Ltd Gloucestershire
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752442167
SKU
V9780752442167
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Tom McCluskie
An acknowledged Titanic expert, Tom McCluskie (MBE) was seconded by H&W to help James Cameron make his epic Titanic movie, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. He is a regular speaker at Titanic conventions worldwide and has written numerous books on the Titanic and her two sister ships.

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