Abimbola Akanwo

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Engineer with interest in law, science, the environment, health issues, cooking, gardening, walking, writing, travelling, london, uk.

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HMS Belfast

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912 days ago

HMS Belfast

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magnetize 912 days ago

HMS Belfast was decommissioned in 1963. It became a museum ship in 1971. It is moored on the South Bank London.

magnetize 912 days ago

Town class cruisers like HMS Belfast were constrained to less than 10,000 tons (9 071 847.4 kg) by the Washington Naval Treaty...

magnetize 912 days ago

HMS Belfast was badly damaged by a German mine in the early part of the war. After extensive repairs it returned to action in 1942. Escorted Arctic convoys to the Soviet Union in 1943. Tool part in the Battle of North Cape. Supported the D-Day landings of

magnetize 912 days ago

Yep, I need a better photographs...:-)

magnetize 912 days ago

HMS Belfast is a 20th century sub-class Royal Navy;s Town class cruiser, commissioned in 1939, just before the start of WWII