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About Randulf Hansen
- Randulf Hansen (26 August 1858 – 5 September 1942) was a Norwegian ship designer.
- He was considered to be one of the country's leading naval architects of iron and steel ships.
- Among his designs were the British passenger liner SS Britannia (1887) and the Norwegian barque Skomvær (1890).Hansen was born in Bergen, Norway.
- He started as an apprentice for the Norwegian ship designer Ananias Dekke at Brunchorst & Dekkes verft in Nordnes.
- He later worked in Philadelphia and New Brunswick.
- After a short stay at the shipyard Flages verft in Bergen, he went to the UK to work for the shipbuilding firm Raylton, Dixon & Co.
- at Middlesbrough.In 1882, he returned to Bergen to work at the shipbuilder firm Martens, Olsen & Co.
- Hansen was offered the position of design and drafting manager at Laxevaag Maskin og Jernskibsbyggeri in Bergen.
- In 1889 Hansen was offered the management of Fevigs Jernskibsbyggeri, a new iron shipyard in Fevik at Grimstad in Aust-Agder.
- The yard in Fevik was a hull workshop, without division for boilers and machinery.
- Most ships were towed for completion to shipyards in Great Britain or to Fredrikstad or Bergen.
- During the next twenty years, over seventy steel vessels were designed by Randulf Hansen.
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