HMS Belfast C. 35 Londres 2015
English Translation
Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamas Pour autant, comment allons-nous rembourser?.
Le HMS Belfast est le dernier survivant actuellement à flot des croiseurs britanniques de la deuxième guerre mondiale et il a été transformé en musée sur la Tamise en face la tour de Londres et à coté du Tower Bridge.Il est connu pour son rôle durant la Bataille du Cap Nord contre le croiseur de bataille Scharnhorst et aussi par son rôle au matin du jour J le 6 juin 1944.Après la deuxième guerre mondiale le Belfast est resté en service jusqu'à 1963 période durant laquelle il a participé à la guerre de Corée et d'autres missions en Extrême Orient et en Méditerranée il est devenu musée après son désarmement par la Royal Navy en 1965.
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HMS Belfast | KMS Scharnhorst | HMS Duke of York |
Operation Tungsten |
Caractéristiques
N° de quille C35
Deplacement: 11,553 tons
Equipage: 750 850
Longueur 187. m
Largeur 21 m
Tirant d’eau: 6. m
Moteur: 4 chaudières Four Admiralty oil-fired
Vitesse: 32 noeuds (59 km/h)
Armement fin de carrière
6 inch Mk XXIII | QF 4 inch Mark XVI | 6 inch Mk XXIII |
12 (4 × 3) 6 inch Mk XXIII (152mm)
8 (4 × 2) QF 4 inch Mark XVI (101.6mm)
12 (6 × 2) Bofors AA
Avions (débarqués durant la 2° GM) ) 2 Supermarine Walrus
Blindage 114 mm (pont ) 76 mm (moyenne)
Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamas For so much, how shall we repay
HMS Belfast is the last surviving example of Britain's cruiser of the WW2. She was now a museum on the Thames between Tower and Tower Bridge.
Best know for her role during the Battle of the North Cape against the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst but mostly for her role during the morning of D-Day,on June 6th 1944 .After WW2 HMS Belfast remained in service until 1963, during which time she was involved in the Korean War and other peacekeeping missions in the Far East and the Mediterranea ,she became a museum after her retirement from the Royal Navy in 1965.
History
The Besfast was a Town ship class fo the Royal Navy
This Class were designed under the constraints of the London naval Treaty of 1930
They were built in response to the powerful US Brooklyn and and Japanese Mogami Class
All these ships know as light cruiser were built in three distinct sub-classes, they are
Southampton,
Gloucester
Edinburgh classes with a a main armament no greater than 155 mm
The HMS Belfast is one of two ships of the Edingburgh class
This ship trown class was forming by 10 ships forming 3 sub-class
The Southampton class with HMS Southampton (sunk in 1941)Birmingham ,Glasgow,New castle and Sheiffield
The Gloucester with the HMS Gloucester(sunk in 1941) Liverpool and Manchester (sunk in 1942 ) witha redesigned deck and received thicker armour on the gun turrets.
The Edinburgh class with HMS Edingurgh (sunk in 1942)and the Belfast were longer 187 to 180 m initially to allow an increase in the main armament from twelve 152 mm guns in four triple and 4 X 102 mm High Angle Low Angle guns and 8X 40 mm and further armour protection
The first Town-class ship were launched in 1936 and commissioned in 1937, just two years before the outbreak of war. Four of the Town-class were sunk during the war: HMS Edinburgh, Gloucester, Manchester, and Southampton
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Description
The Town class cruisers were constrained to less than 10,000 tons by the Washington Naval Treaty. They were so little than the foreigner cruiser but tgey have a powerfull armement in 4 152 mm turret . Originally intended to have quadruple 6 inch gun mountings, problems with building them caused the design to be reverted to using improved versions of the triple mountings fitted to the earlier ships of the class. The improved mountings neverthess were lighter than the original ones, and the weight saved was used to improve the ship's armour and anti-aircraft defences. Ulteriors modifications mean the taking down of the X turret changed with AA guns
All were heavily modified duringWW 2 and after the Korean War, had one aft turret replaced by two quad 40 mm Bofors guns during WWII, since there was insufficient space to fit the needed extra anti-aircraft guns and retain the turret. This was not a problem in the Belfast, because she was longer and had more room. They still had substantial modifications to their weaponry, including addition of 40 mm Bofors guns. The addition of Radar equipment during WWII, aided the ships' combat effectiveness. The speed was of 32 knots
The Belfast at war
Belfast was launched on St Patrick's Day in 1938 at Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Belfast by the wife of the then prime minister, Neville Chamberlain.
She was commissioned in August 1939 and assigned to the 18th Cruiser Squadron.
When WW2 started, the 18th Cruiser Squadron was used as part of the British efforts to impose a naval blockade on Germany. (interception of the the German liner Cap Norte on October 9th 1939 ) She returned to service in the Home Fleet in November 1942 after her mine collapse of November 21st 1939 when shep was seriously damaged by a mine laid on November 4th by the U 21. The mine broke the keel and wrecked the hull and machinery
During his repairs she received new equipments to improve her stability and a new radar and fire control She increase her displacement from 11,175 tons to 11,553 tons, become the Britain's heaviest cruiser.
Wiht the 10th Cruiser Squadron she provide escort for convoys to USSR
HMS Belfast | KMS Scharnhorst | HMS Duke of York |
But her major action took place on December 26th 1943, with the cruiser squadron, consisting of Norfolk and Sheffield and Belfast Heavy cruiser HMS Jamaica and the battleship HMS Duke of York during the Battle of North Cape,when the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst, was sunk
She took part to action against Tirpitz (Operation Tungsten in March 1944 ) at Altenfjord in northern Norway.
Operation Tungsten |
After she took part at the Operation Neptune naval operation pafrt of the operation Overlord on june 6th 1944 as flagship of bombardment Force E.
She has the responsibility with the Eastern Eastern Naval Task Force of assaults on Gold and Juno beaches
She shoot during five weeks with on July 8th 1944 during the Charnwood Operation the participation of the battleship HMS Rodney and the monitor HMS Roberts.
After he go to the Far East, and figth against IJN since april 1945 . A rumor says what during the last days of the war in Europe she was spotted in the North Sea by a German submarine The German commander decided not to fire, because the war was lost for him
She return int the Far East for relief police operation following the Japanese surrender. After WW2 she serve during Korean War where in July 1952 she was hit by a north Korean battery .Belfast was modernized between January 1956 and May 1959 The old AA guns ( 40 mm) were removed and replaced by more modern weapons of the same calibre and she receive a new gunnery control equipment and radars
Finally the original bridge was rebuilt and enclosed to face the new constraints of NBC warfare and the original raked tripod masts were replaced by lattice masts.She look like at the HMS Tiger
Between 1959 and 1962 she operated in the Far The ship left Singapore on March 26th , 1962 for a final exercise in Mediterranean on August 26th 1962
Follow his exercice she was decommisionend and after tractation she arrive in London to become a museum ship and was first opened to the public on October 21st 1971.
Now is currently painted in a camouflage scheme officially known as Admiralty Disruptive Camouflage Type 25.
It his a error because his camo shema was paint only from November 1942 to July 1944. And the HMS Belfast présent a silhouette and equipment of 1956
Specifications
Displacement: 11,553 tons
Complement: 750 850
Length: 187. m
Overall Beam:21 m
Draught: 6. m
Propulsion: Four Admiralty oil-fired Boilers
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h)
Armament end of carrier
6 inch Mk XXIII | QF 4 inch Mark XVI | 6 inch Mk XXIII |
12 (4 × 3) 6 inch Mk XXIII (152mm)
8 (4 × 2) QF 4 inch Mark XVI (101.6mm)
12 (6 × 2) Bofors AA
Aircraft carried (removed latter ) 2 Supermarine Walrus
Armour: 114 mm deck 76 mm