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Building & Launch of the SS Oranjestad
( All photos National Museums Northern Ireland (NMNI))
A note of interest about the shipbuilders, Harland & Wolff, this is the same company that built the Titanic.
Here you see the ribs of the ship and the steel plate being riveted to the ribs.
A closer view of the ship as construction begins.
This is one of the bulkheads which were installed in the ship.
Allmost completed before her launch.
Just before her launch.
Launch of the "Oranjestad".
Launch of the "Oranjestad".
( All photos National Museums Northern Ireland (NMNI))