Talk:HMS Belfast (C35)

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Contents 1 Recent History 2 Displacement 3 WikiProject class rating 4 London Gateway

[edit] Recent History

How about a bit more recent history ie after it became a museum ship? I remember visiting it in the 1980's and I think it was painted battleship grey. It now appears to be painted in dazzle camy. It would be interesting to hear about the conservation efforts, visitor numbers, etc. --ManInStone 14:50, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

MOTTO= "Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamas" (For so much, how shall we repay?)

• Wasn't Belfast involved in the D-Day landings? 81.131.249.202 12:29, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Yes, see the article for her role in (starting off) the bombardment of German defences that day [User:bigpad|Patrick]]

[edit] Displacement

The IWM website gives her standard displacement as 11,553 tons. This appears to contradict the article. GraemeLeggett 14:31, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Graeme, you are quite right. A number of sites list contradictory figures but the IWM/RN sites are the most trustworthy and clearly I should have said 11,xxx not 13,xxx. Thanks for spotting this. I'll update article accordingly Patrick.

[edit] WikiProject class rating

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[edit] London Gateway

The article for London Gateway services states that the guns in both turrets of HMS Belfast are trained on the service station. Does anyone know if this is true, and if so could it be incorporated here, without resorting to a "trivia" section? ColourSarge (talk) 21:50, 19 May 2008 (UTC)