The HMS Belfast served her country for 24 years, and that service reads as a What's What list of 20th century naval battles. It fired on Normandy before the D-Day invasion, it helped sink the German ...
LONDON — Its menacing gray mass with its 6-inch guns that point skyward and its maze of corridors and ladders that take visitors on a trip back through history enticed about 270,000 people to hop ...
A journey of maritime nostalgia has come to an end for one 90-year-old former shipbuilder, after he set foot on HMS Belfast for the first time in seven decades. Cec George believes he is the last ...
LONDON — History books can be boring, historic boats enlightening. We've all read about the pivotal Battle of the Atlantic or seen movies featuring the famed Normandy landings that helped sway the ...
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World War II veterans Tuesday sat alongside British Prime Minister David Cameron aboard the HMS Belfast as a C-75 Dakota aircraft flew above the vessel on the river Thames. Veterans who served aboard ...
Events have been taking place across the country and in France to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. One of London's most famous landmarks, HMS Belfast, simulated a gun salute to ...
Just like its American counterpart, the Royal Navy is hard at work trying to modernize its fleet. One of the ways it will do this is the so-called City Class Type 26 frigate now being built in the ...
One of the Royal Navy’s most advanced warships has arrived in Belfast to mark Armistice Day in the city. HMS Duncan arrived on Friday morning for its third visit to Belfast, one of its affiliated ...