Belfast contains two other shipbuilding yards, both the outcome of Harland and Wolff's enterprise; those of Messrs.

Macilwaine and Lewis, employing about four hundred men, and of Messrs.

Workman and Clarke, employing about a thousand.

The heads of both these firms were trained in the parent shipbuilding works of Belfast.

There is do feeling of rivalry between the firms, but all work together for the good of the town.
In Plutarch's Lives, we are told that Themistocles said on one occasion, "'Tis true that I have never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute, but I know how to raise a small and inconsiderable city to glory and greatness." So might it be said of Harland and Wolff.