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PACEMAKER BELFAST 09/11/2018 NATO warship HMS Duncan docks in Belfast for the weekend. Every ship in the Royal Navy is affiliated to a city, and HMS Duncan, a Type 45 destroyer, proved to be a ...
A journey of maritime nostalgia has come to an end for one 90-year-old former shipbuilder, after he set foot on HMS Belfast for the first time in seven decades.
The last one, as a matter of fact. The HMS Belfast, the last of Britain's WWII fleet, has been moored here for nearly 50 years. Today, it's a museum ship and memorial to British and Allied sailors.
HMS Belfast 60 Years On By Rosemary Gibbs who has given her full permission to place her story on this site. Inspired by the log sheets copied from the records office at Kew describing HMS Belfast ...
It was taken over by the IWM in 1978. Mr Harrison described HMS Belfast as “a lovely ship, there’s some ships that are warm, and that was, it was a lovely ship, it still is”.
Clare's family only found her grandfather's photo album of his ime on bad HMS Antwerp after he had passed away. For 15-year-old Sam, VE Day is about justice prevailing.
In May 1971, after 32 years of service during which HMS Belfast had steamed nearly half a million miles, the last of the Royal Navy’s wartime cruisers was ‘reduced to disposal’ in preparation for sale ...
Stories and rare documents revealing life serving aboard HMS Belfast are being shared to mark the 80th anniversary of the historic warship’s launch. The oldest surviving Second World War veteran ...