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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

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. 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.

Selected designs

* SS ''Britannia'' (1887) *'' Skomvær'' (1890) *D/S ''Vøringen'' (1891) *''Ragna'' (1892) * D/S ''Dronningen'' (1893) * D/S ''Sand'' (1898)

References

1858 births 1942 deaths Engineers from Bergen Boat and ship designers Norwegian shipbuilders {{Norway-business-bio-stub