Unleash Your Sense of Adventure: Exploring the Hidden Gems of HMS Belfast

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Welcome to HMS Belfast on the bank of the River Thames under the gaze of the Shard! This is a floating museum and it is incredible how much there is to see and do and how you can just wonder around the whole ship.

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0:00 Welcome to the video
0:08 HMS Belfast On Tour
0:44 View of Tower Bridge & Tower of London
1:39 Gun Turret
2:47 Inside the Ship
4:00 Laundry
4:46 Misc Rooms
7:08 Galley
9:55 Mess Deck
10:33 Boiler & Engine Rooms
15:01 Medical Areas
18:15 Cafe on Board
18:41 Stores & Misc Areas
20:45 Missile Storage
21:48 Interactive Area
22:59 Misc Areas
25:12 Onto The Deck
25:33 The Bridges

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[nerissacrawford]

I will take the stance of a designer [and a future naval architect here] and say I love the chrome fittings and the way it looks with the red and blue. You can look at photographs of it but, seeing it in the video is something else. I loved looking at all the machinery and the industrial aesthetic of this. Gives me a whole set of ideas. Now, I am going to specialise in civilian pleasure craft, but the brand will be there. I loved what I've seen. By the way, hello Belfast!

[Wisdom-Nuggets-Tid-Bits]

What a phenomenal video tour!! I am amazed how you were able to hold the camera so steady, and yet climb, crawl, bend to, walk along, and reach all the spaces in that compact ship and keep it flawless!! Genius! I would love to make a morning out of touring this piece of history. What a ship. So it was retired, so to say, in 1967. So the various government divisions over war and defense bucketed trusts to keep these military ships and such refurbished, cleaned, and kept for people to see and appreciate. This ship was incredible self-sustained. What with the gigantic kitchens and bread baking rooms, the dentist, operating room area, sewing ports, and a jail! Fascinating. I like how they have the exhibits of food of all sorts so we may see how food was cooked. The large vats of soups were incredible. The engineering and mechanics were just great. I like all the interactions and exhibits of information for people to try and see. I also would like to try the steering of the ship as well. So this was so well done, I can understand that the same group that set this up also set up the underground war rooms from WW II - which I LOVED that video too. What a fabulous group. Well done. So this is part of the Imperial War Museum. I can only imagine how wonderful that is - and I know we have that gem coming!! I have to go back and listen again as I miss some bits as there was so much you covered. Blessings.

[kylieellis]

My hubby LOVED this tour and then we had to catch the Churchill one too, thank you!!

[arrjay]

My Grandfather served on Belfast up until she hit the mine, and he was reassigned.
I live in Canada, but visited London, and HMS Belfast, in 2006.
They didn't have the modern museum fixings then, though you were pretty free to wander around her even then too.
I don't have any living relatives, that I know of, left in England so I probably won't have a chance to visit her again. Thank you for the tour.

[stevetherangerlord-oyde]

When I self toured this ship in 1985 you could go almost anywhere on it, work the gun breaches, go way down in the engine spaces, etc. I spent 4 plus hours wondering around on her, and still have my ticket stub.

[ACELog]

In the Music Room, I could see three radio receivers. So, there was also the possibility of piped radio programs.
And at 13:55 - one of the Opus Audio Guides! I used to work for the London firm that made them, until lockdown closed all museums. I was made redundant then, so decided to retire also.

[ed]

Went on in 1997 on a trip from the US. I was impressed about how much you could see. Obviously a lot of the newest interactive stuff wasn't around then.

[vernsmart]

Very interesting technolodge of by gone era.

[lesleysmith]

It must have been a bit of trouble getting 🤔 around as you are so tall. What a fascinating place. I was one of those people who looked at the boat 🚢 from various sites but never went on it. There really is so much to see 👀. I have found the tours were you have your own headset can be more enjoyable. I am not sure 😕🤔 about doing some of those stairs, they look really steep. I don't know how anyone could just live in one area for who knows how long. You could only be in certain areas with the same people all the time. Where you slept didn't 😴 look very comfortable. I had a boyfriend who was in the navy over here. He was 6 ft11/2 and the bunks were only 6ft long so he said it was miserable. I wonder how long it takes to learn all the mechanics to run the boat. You got so much in, in half a hour. I was surprised at the operating room and x-rays rooms, but I am sure plenty of accidents happened. Very enjoyable speedy video, learnt quite a lot about 🚢🛥. Wish I had visited when I had the chance.

[karenstanislaw]

**Frankenstein the Cat! Would have liked to know how long he/she lived, and in what era he/she was on the ship? During or post WW2? How did Frankenstein get on board in the first place? Anyway, you can tell I found that particularly poignant. -Liked that cafe, Steve. Interesting place to meet a friend just for that. Much thanks.

[sharonpond]

Thanks, Steve. I really appreciated this video. It's something I could never do myself due to mobility issue's, also I really have an incredibly rotten sense of directio, s I would definitely have gone round in circles.

[ruscador]

a great ship with great history
i think it helped on sink the tirpitz ?

[limmythree]

Belfast did not fire missiles but 6 inch shells. No, the Transmitting station is not for transmitting and receiving messages but for transmitting fire control data. “The large grey box dominating the centre of the compartment is an Admiralty Fire Control Table, a mechanical computer. It was fed details of the range and bearing to targets by the Forward Director Control Tower on the ship's Gunnery Direction Platform (about eight decks above the transmitting station). The computer then calculated the correct angles of training and elevation required for the guns to hit their target.” Correct details are important.