Amson and Goliath loom menacingly over me in all their grandeur. The former, a ‘wee’ 33 feet taller than his 315 foot-tall companion. Their yellow bodies glisten in the rays of the morning sun above the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland’s quaint little capital city. But before you begin to imagine me time travelling back to Biblical times, I must confess to possessing no such supernatural abilities. For, I am merely waxing lyrical about a set of shipbuilding cranes named after the ancient warrior heroes that inhabit the pages of The Old Testament!

Tourists take a selfie in the famous Titanic pose at Titanic Belfast. pics/raul dias