Well it is Sunday!

I posted a wee bit yesterday about HMS Belfast and although there doesn't appear to have been much interest in it, I just couldn't resist posting a second image of the ship.

HMS Belfast

A few facts and figures about the ship:

• Built: Harland and Wolff Shipyard, Belfast. Keel laid 10 December 1936
• Launched: 17 March 1938 - St. Patrick's Day
• Commissioned: Commissioned into the Royal Navy 5 August 1939
• Standard displacement: 11,553 tons
• Overall length: 613 feet 6 inches (187metres)
• Beam: 69 feet (21metres)
• Draught: 19 feet 9 inches (6.1metres)
• Armament (1959): Twelve (4x3) 6-inch; eight (4x2) 4-inch HA/LA; twelve (6x2) Bofors AA
• Propulsive machinery: Four Admiralty 3-drum boilers; four steam powered Parsons single reduction geared turbines driving four shafts at 80,000 shaft horsepower
• Maximum speed: 32 knots (36 miles / 58 km per hour)
• Complement: 750 (850 when acting as flagship)

I'll climb back in my box now and stop boring the world...

Have a good Sunday all.