Titanic Shipyard Horn Sounds Over Belfast in Tribute to Health Workers
The horn at Harland and Wolff, a historic shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland, best known as the site where the ill-fated RMS Titanic was built, sounded over the city on Thursday, April 23, in tribute to National Health Service (NHS) workers.
It was the third such tribute by the shipyard in as many weeks, taking place on Thursday evenings as people clapped across the UK to applaud health workers.
The siren had been sounded on April 9 for the first time in two decades, the Belfast Telegraph reported.
“We simply wanted to share our gratitude to all workers in the NHS and other critical services across Northern Ireland, the UK and globally, as we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with them in these unprecedented times,” Harland and Wolff said on Twitter that day, as it shared footage of workers clapping atop one of the shipyard’s two gantry cranes, which are called Samson and Goliath. Credit: Glyn Roberts via Storyful
