HMS Belfast is a Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy. She is now permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London...

ISBN 1-86019-874-0. Wingate, John (2004). In Trust for the Nation: HMS Belfast 1939–1972. London: Imperial War Museum. ISBN 1-901623-72-6. Wikimedia Commons...

Retrieved 25 February 2012. Wingate, John (2004). In Trust for the Nation: HMS Belfast 1939–1972. London: Imperial War Museum. p. 101. ISBN 1-901623-72-6. Wingate...

Retrieved 23 November 2015. Wingate, John (2004). In Trust for the Nation: HMS Belfast 1939–1972. London: Imperial War Museum. p. 81. ISBN 1-901623-72-6. Friedman...

field. The cruiser HMS Belfast is just one example of a ship that was struck by a magnetic mine during this time. On 21 November 1939, a mine broke her...

two ships were laid down before the Second World War began in September 1939 and a third was ordered during the war, but their construction was suspended...

Royal Navy, becoming HMS Gadwall (also known as RNAS Belfast or RNAS Sydenham) in 1943. RAF Nutts Corner then became Belfast's main airport (while Aldergrove...

spring of 1939 from young men of the City and District of Belfast. It was mobilised and at action stations, manning its guns to defend Belfast, before war...

World War when RAF Belfast occupied Sydenham (Belfast harbour) airfield, Fleet Air Arm personnel based there were lodged under HMS Caroline. In 1943,...

In the 1920s another British prison ship (HMS Argenta) was used to house hundreds of internees at Belfast Lough where conditions were described as "unbelievable"...

HMS Southampton 1938-40 HMS Belfast 1939-40 HMS Cumberland 1939-40 HMS Edinburgh 1939-40 HMS Norfolk 1939-40 HMS Suffolk 1939-40 List of commanding officers...

Northern Ireland: The Case for Retention", March 1976 "Sydenham (Belfast City) (George Best Belfast City)". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved...

Herdman Channel in Belfast harbour, 20 feet (6.1 m) from the land, entry to the jetty being guarded by sand-bagged army emplacements. HMS Hartland Point,...

cats "HMS Ark Royal". naval-history.net. "Miracle of the Ark Royal". Sunday Post. 16 November 1941. "Cat with seven more lives to go". Belfast Telegraph...

Castle in Belfast, launching her in 1938 and completing her in April 1939. The Admiralty requisitioned her for the Royal Navy in October 1939, and had...

HMS M33 is an M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy. Built in 1915, she saw active service in the Mediterranean during the First World War and in Russia...

Castle in Belfast in 1936. Union-Castle Line operated Dunvegan Castle on scheduled service between Southampton and South Africa until 1939. When war broke...

Lighters Convoyed at Trinidad (Reuters)". Belfast Newsletter. Belfast. 3 July 1937. p. 7. Armed marines from H.M.S. Ajax and Exeter sent here last month to...

Belfast died 1943 Canon Patrick McGouran, PP Sacred Heart, Belfast – a nephew of Bishop Daniel Mageean and a former chaplain to those interned on HMS...

recommissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Snapdragon. Arabis was built at Harland & Wolff, Belfast, as part of the 1939 War Emergency Programme for the Royal...

HMS Queen Emma was a commando troop ship of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Built as a civilian passenger liner in 1939 by De Schelde at Vlissingen...

carrier HMS Argus (I49) HMS Hermes (95) HMS Unicorn (I72) 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier HMS Pretoria Castle (F61) HMS Audacity HMS Archer (D78) Avenger-class...

Training Services Branch HMS Hibernia URNU Belfast Alan McKibbin (1 March 1956). Army Estimates, 1956–57 (Speech). Belfast East. Retrieved 31 March 2014...

HMS Rawalpindi was a British armed merchant cruiser (a converted ocean liner employed as a convoy escort, as a patrol vessel, or to enforce a blockade)...

Bases Agreement to the United Kingdom. She was renamed HMS St. Mary's and arrived at Belfast, Northern Ireland, 8 October 1940. Assigned to the permanent...

until 1939, when she was requisitioned for military service, converted into an armed merchant cruiser, and commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Kanimbla...

during the year 1939 in Northern Ireland. Governor - The Duke of Abercorn Prime Minister - James Craig 7 March – Harland and Wolff's Belfast shipyard launched...

commissioned in the Royal Navy the same day as HMS Salisbury. HMS Salisbury, as a Town-class destroyer, arrived at Belfast, Northern Ireland, 30 December 1940 for...

Royal Navy, including aircraft carriers such as HMS Formidable and Unicorn; the cruisers, HMS Belfast and Penelope as well as 131 other naval vessels...

HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Designed to support the...