body to give it more strength and longitudinal stability and the installation of the most modern devices and fire control radar. the total mass increased from 11175 to 11553 tons, making it the heaviest Belfast light cruiser of the British fleet.

He then became the flagship of the 10th Cruiser Squadron, under the command of Rear Admiral Robert Burnett, with the mission of escorting Arctic convoys bound for the Soviet Union. On December 26, 1943, in what became known as the Battle of North Cape, the squadron, which included in addition to the Norfolk Belfast and Sheffield, collided with the ‘German battle cruiser Scharnhorst and Gneisenau class, with the’ help of the battleship HMS Duke of York, he was able to sink.

The Belfast also participated at ‘Operation Tungsten inMarch 1944, a major attack aircraft based on aircraft carriers concentrated on the German battleship Tirpitz, which after the hunt Bismarck was the only major German ship still at sea, and was docked Altafjord in the northern part of Norway. The Tirpitz was hit by bombs and fifteen was heavily damaged, but survived the crash.

In June 1944, the cruiser took part in the bombardment of enemy positions in preparation for Operation Neptune, that is the phase of landing of ‘Operation Overlord, in the role of flagship of Bombardment Force E. Then, as part of the Eastern Naval Task Force, with the responsibility to cover the landing of British and Canadian troops on the beaches of Gold and Juno, was one of the first ships to open fire on