ABE VISITS TITANIC QUARTER, BELFAST

摘要

ABE members visited the Titanic Signature Building on the site of the construction of probably the on the site orthe construction or probably the most famous ship in the world, the Titanic, which was built in Belfast and launched in 1911. At that time Belfast had one of the largest shipyards in the world, employing some 50,000 workers at a site stretching to over 75 hectares. The site of the shipyard was at Queen's Island, a flat area at the mouth of the River Lagan, at the end of Belfast Lough, which in its heyday had multiple gantry cranes and towering workshops and was filled with the sound of metal being beaten, riveted and weLded. From the Sixties work in the shipyards declined until, in 2003, the last ship was launched and the massive buildings and cranes stood silent. So it remained.