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 trained under Norwegian ship designer Ananias Dekke at Nordnes. He later worked in Philadelphia and New Brunswick. After a short stay at Flages shipyard in Bergen, he went 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 design and drafting manager at Laxevaags Maskin- og Jernskibsbyggeri in Bergen. In 1889 Hansen moved to 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. Over the next twenty 20 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)