HMS Belfast (C35)

August 21st, 2013 admin

The HMS Belfast (Pennant number C35) is a light cruiser of the Class Town, Edinburgh type of the British Royal Navy. Built at the Harland and Wolff of Belfast, servizo entered into in August 1939 shortly before the outbreak of World War II. In November, the impact with a German mine forced the ship in the pipeline for long repairs. Back in action towards the end of 1942, was initially escorted the Arctic convoys headed to the northern ports of the ‘Soviet Union in 1943, and then participated in the Battle of North Cape. Later, she provided fire support to landing forces on the beaches of Gold and Juno during ‘Operation Neptune and later participated in the Korean War. After being modernized between1956 and 1959, he participated in a series of missions around the world. After being decommissioned in 1963 it seemed that his destiny was to be dismantled for the recovery of materials, but, after a campaign organized by a private entity, and after requests by Rear Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan-Giles, formerly commander of the ship, was and transformed into a museum ship is moored in London on the Thames, close to Tower Bridge, from 21 October 1971 (anniversary of Trafalgar Day).

Building

The Town class cruisers were designed to not exceed 10,000 tons, according to the dictates of the Washington Naval Treaty. The original plan quadruple pieces of 152 mm, but because of problems encountered during construction were used the advanced versions of the guns already used to triple the