HMS Belfast (C35)
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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.
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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 |
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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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