Belfast, HMS

Largest and most powerful cruiser built for the British Royal Navy with a displacement of 11,874 tonnes/11,684 tons, now a permanent Royal Navy museum, moored on the south bank of the River Thames, near the Tower of London; it has been open to the public since 1971. The Belfast was commissioned in 1939, and took part in the Battle of the North Cape and in the Normandy landings in 1944.