HMS Belfast
WWII light cruiser permanently moored on the Thames, now a nine-deck floating naval museum.
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This guide to HMS Belfast, moored on the Thames in London, opens on a November morning in 1939, when a ship barely four months old steamed out of the Firth of Forth into waters that were not as empty as they looked. It follows her through the crew she carried and the long months of repair, and out to the Normandy coast in 1944. Best heard standing on the quay, looking along the hull toward the bow.
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