Light cruiser
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A light cruiser was a type of small or medium-sized warship. The term is a shortening of the phrase "light armored cruiser", describing a small ship that carried armor in the same way as an armored cr
HMS Belfast, one of the last surviving light cruisers. She carries 12 6-inch guns and displaces 11,553 tons – "light" in World War II referred to gun size, not displacement.
HMS Mercury
HMS Gloucester, one of the Town class, in 1917
SMS Bremen
HMS Belfast
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HMS Belfast is a Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy. She is permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London and is operated by the Imperial War Museum. Constr
Light cruiser
…They traded a main gun turret for additional AA, fire control, and radar installations, over the Brooklyn class. Four are preserved as museum ships: HMS Belfast in London, HMS Caroline in Belfast, USS Little Rock in Buffalo, New York, and Mikhail Kutuzov at Novorossiysk. Similar ships include the protected…
Belfast in 2013
HMS Belfast berthed in the Pool of London; Tower Bridge can be seen behind.
Shells in a rack in the underwater magazine serving the "A" turret of Belfast.
One of Belfast's Supermarine Walrus aircraft, photographed in an Icelandic fjord, 1942–1943.