Mark 75 years of HMS Belfast

Thanks to Ian for alerting your author that HMS Belfast is celebrating its 75th birthday this weekend, having been launched on 17th March 1938 in Belfast.


Visitors are told to expect gun firing, live music on deck, radio demonstrations, medallion-making and hourly semaphore demonstrations, in an event that continues tomorrow.

For more, see http://www.iwm.org.uk/events/hms-belfast/hms-belfast-75th-birthday-bash