HMS Belfast (Image heavy)

[Commander Wallace]

Awesome Thanks Kapitan not only for taking the time to give everyone a brief History on HMS Belfast but also uploading the great pictures. She is a battle hardened veteran deserving of all the honor's bestowed upon her. Belfast appears to be in great shape and I'm wondering if it's still functional, i.e, engines and such.

Is the Belfast maintained by the government , volunteers or perhaps both ?

Salute to the HMS Belfast

[Kapitan]

HMS Belfast like HMS Cavalier has all her main and secondary weapons active, yes her main guns can fire if required and in fact they still do on certain occasions the last was I do believe the Queens diamond jubilee as part of the 128 gun salute from the tower of London.

Her engines could be put back to use but her boilers couldn't so it would most likely be a total re engine job I was told by one of the tour guides she could be put back into service after a major refit it would take around 6 months to put her into the seaworthy fighting state, however there is a few problems with that one is cost the second is no one in the RN would know how to man her properly, she would have to have new screws as currently she has none the tie taken to train over haul and work her up to maximum fighting strength would probably be too long and too costly and with a man power requirement of between 750 to 900 men to man her she would be incredibly expensive.