HMS Belfast

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Caption: 
HMS Belfast, Edinburgh-class cruiser, (modified Southampton-class). She was launched March 17, 1938; commissioned August 5, 1939; mined November 21, 1939; returned to fleet November 1942; participated in the Battle of the North Cape, in which KMS Scharnhorst was sunk; escorted the Normandy invasion; fought in the Korean War; decommissioned August 24, 1963; museum since 1971.
Caption Written By: 
Jason McDonald
Photographed By: 
Jason McDonald
City: 
London
State/Province/Oblast: 
London
Country: 
England
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