Town-class cruiser (1936)
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The Town class consisted of 10 light cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. The Towns were designed within the constraints of the London Naval Treaty of 1930. The ships were built in the
Liverpool in 1942
Mk XXII turret with rounded contours mounted on the Southampton sub-class
Mk XXIII turret with squared-off contours mounted on the Edinburgh sub-class
HMS Belfast moored by Tower Bridge
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
Town-class cruiser (1936)
…end of the 1950s, some seeing action during the Korean War. The last Town-class ship to be scrapped was Sheffield in 1967. One ship of the Town class — Belfast — remains, moored on the River Thames in London as a museum-ship of the Imperial War Museum, a role she has performed since 1971. Fiji-class cruiser…
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.