Belfast Barge

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Test your knowledge with our shipyard quiz

Imagine you’re getting ready for a job interview at the shipyards.  You are going to be tested on your knowledge.  How many of these questions can you get right?  All the answers are in the captions to our pictures (see ‘Your Collection’).

Question 1

Describe the Harland and Wolff logo.

Question 2

What would you do on the promenade deck?

Question 3

When was the ‘Canberra’ launched?

Question 4

What is ‘welder’s flash’?

Question 5

What did radiographers do in the shipyards?

Question 6

What were two of the jobs done by women in the shipyards?

Question 7

What was the job of a ‘greaser’?

Question 8

What had to take no more than seven minutes?

Question 9

What did workers collect from the slipway after a launch?

Question 10

Where did the barge ‘Confiance’ come from?

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