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...
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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...
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Imperial War Museum (section HMS Belfast (1938))
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...
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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...
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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...
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World War when RAF Belfast occupied Sydenham (Belfast harbour) airfield, Fleet Air Arm personnel based there were lodged under HMS Caroline. In 1943,...
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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...
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Lion-class battleship (redirect from HMS Lion (1939))
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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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RAF Sydenham (redirect from RNAS Belfast)
Northern Ireland: The Case for Retention", March 1976 "Sydenham (Belfast City) (George Best Belfast City)". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved...
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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...
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Milltown Cemetery (redirect from Milltown Cemetery, Belfast)
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...
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USS Claxton (DD-140) (redirect from HMS Salisbury (I-52))
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...
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Royal Navy, including aircraft carriers such as HMS Formidable and Unicorn; the cruisers, HMS Belfast and Penelope as well as 131 other naval vessels...
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USS Bagley (DD-185) (redirect from HMS St. Mary's (I-12))
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...
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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...
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Thiepval Barracks (redirect from HMS Hibernia (shore establishment))
Training Services Branch HMS Hibernia URNU Belfast Alan McKibbin (1 March 1956). Army Estimates, 1956–57 (Speech). Belfast East. Retrieved 31 March 2014...
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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...
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HMS Royal Oak was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in 1916, the ship first saw combat...
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Reserve Scotland, at HMS Caledonia, Rosyth Dockyard Aberdeen Detachment Dundee Detachment Edinburgh Detachment Glasgow Detachment Belfast Detachment Newcastle...
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HMAS Kanimbla (C78) (redirect from HMS Kanimbla)
until 1939, when she was requisitioned for military service, converted into an armed merchant cruiser, and commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Kanimbla...
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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...
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RAF Nutts Corner (redirect from RNAS Nutts Corner (HMS Pintail))
civil air operations were transferred from HMS Gadwall/Belfast Harbour Airport (now the George Best Belfast City Airport) to Nutts Corner due to the longer...
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HMS Penelope was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Harland & Wolff (Belfast, Northern Ireland); her keel was laid down...
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RMS Alcantara (1926) (redirect from HMS Alcantara (F88))
RMS Alcantara was a Royal Mail Lines ocean liner that was built in Belfast in 1926. She served in the Second World War first as an armed merchant cruiser...
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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...
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HMS Terror was an Erebus-class monitor built for the Royal Navy during the First World War in Belfast. Completed in 1916, she was assigned to the Dover...
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