News of the Disaster Belfast Newspaper Report

Titanic disaster reports in the Belfast News-Letter and Belfast Evening Telegraph, 16 April 1912.

In Belfast, news of Titanic's sinking was received with shock and grief.  Grown men are said to have broken down and cried in the streets. It was soon learned that Thomas Andrews and his team of shipyard men - the ‘Guarantee Group’- had perished with the ship. 

The Guarantee Group was an elite collection of nine of the best men in their field who accompanied each vessel on its maiden voyage to see that all went well.

The Harland & Wolff workforce was profoundly shaken by the catastrophe and as a mark of respect the shipyard was closed on Saturday 20 April.