HMS Belfast (C35)
Appearance
HMS Belfast at her Lunnon berth, pentit in Admiralty pattern Disruptive Camouflage
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Name: | HMS Belfast |
Ordered: | 21 September 1936 |
Bigger: | Harland an Wolff shipyard, Belfast, UK |
Yard nummer: | 1000[1] |
Laid doun: | 10 December 1936 |
Launched: | 17 Mairch 1938 |
Completit: | 3 August 1939[1] |
Commissioned: | 5 August 1939 |
Decommissioned: | 24 August 1963 |
Identification: | Pennant nummer C35 |
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Status: | Museum ship syne 21 October 1971 |
General chairacteristics | |
Cless an teep: | Town-cless licht cruiser |
Displacement: | 11,550 tons |
Lenth: | 613 ft 6 in (186.99 m) overall[2] |
Beam: | 63 ft 4 in (19.3 m) |
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Installed pouer: | 80,000 shp (60,000 kW) |
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Speed: | 32 knot (59 km/h) |
Complement: | 781–881 (as bannership, 1939)[3] |
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Aircraft carried: | 2 × Supermarine Walrus (disembarked Juin 1943)[6] |
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HMS Belfast is a museum ship, oreeginally a Ryal Navy licht cruiser, permanently moored in Lunnon on the River Thames an operatit bi the Imperial War Museum.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ a b McCluskie, Tom (2013). The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff. Stroud: The History Press. p. 146. ISBN 9780752488615.
- ↑ Wingate 2004, p. 11.
- ↑ Wingate 2004, p. 28.
- ↑ Watton 1985, p. 9.
- ↑ Wingate 2004, p. 12.
- ↑ Wingate 2004, pp. 39-40.
- ↑ Wingate 2004, pp. 58-61.
Bibliografie
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Watton, Ross (1985). Anatomy of the Ship: the Cruiser Belfast. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-328-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Wingate, John (2004). In Trust for the Nation: HMS Belfast 1939–1972. London: Imperial War Museum. ISBN 1-901623-72-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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