Having seen Billy Connolly's programme on Belfast I was very impressed when he climbed the Samson and Goliath cranes at the Harland & Wolff shipyard and was able to lean right into the wind. Having ...
Each of the giant cranes has a span of 140m and a safe working load of 840 tonnes They dominate the skyline and basically say: "Welcome to Belfast." The yellow cranes, known affectionately as Samson ...
The huge cranes that dominate Belfast’s skyline are to stay, preserving the dry dock at Queen’s Island and scheduling the cranes under the Historic Monuments and Archaeological Objects Order. Slugger ...
We Belfast people are proud of our famous yellow cranes. So much so that when they came here in 1969, and 1974, we named them Samson and Goliath. You should see them at Christmas, a towering, ...
A new Northern Irish themed restaurant has opened in Belfast City Airport, creating 30 jobs and introducing table service to the airport for the first time. Samson’s Kitchen & Bar, which is inspired ...
It's been part of the east Belfast skyline since 1969, stands nearly 100m tall and weighs 840 tonnes, but it seems Goliath has been overlooked by Google Maps. The crane is one of two that still ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — The Belfast shipyard that ...
Harland and Wolff shipyard has recruited 600 skilled tradesmen for work on one of the biggest oil rigs ever to be refurbished in Belfast. The employees are on short-term contracts for the ...
An unlikely Anglo-German partnership spawned a shipping dynasty which once stood head and shoulders above anything else the industrial world could muster. The Belfast shipyard of Harland and Wolff ...