Sound of silence: will shipyard that built Titanic vanish into history?

As the hammering and clanging stops at Harland and Wolff, workers hold out hope for a buyerThe yellow cranes were nicknamed Samson and Goliath, soaring steel giants that defined Belfast’s skyline and symbolised Northern Ireland’s industrial might.Hulking over the Harland and Wolff shipyard, each could lift loads weighing hundreds of tonnes, dangling them like playthings over thousands of workers below who hammered and clanged and welded – a thunderous, daily cacophony.The workf