HMS Belfast
Expore all nine decks of Europe's only surviving big gun warship from WWII. HMS Belfast was launched in 1938, saw active service in World War II, and decommissioned in 1965. Now part of the Imperial War Museum, HMS Belfast has been a floating museum since 1971.
Web: hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk
Open: Mar-Oct 10am-6pm, Nov-Feb till 5pm (last admission 45 minutes before close)
Prices: £12.95, senior citizen and student conc available; under-16s free
Open: Mar-Oct 10am-6pm, Nov-Feb till 5pm (last admission 45 minutes before close)
Prices: £12.95, senior citizen and student conc available; under-16s free
Beat the queues & save money with the London Pass
valid at HMS Belfast
News & features about HMS Belfast
- Tall ship Stavros S Niarchos arrives in Pool of London (15 Jul 2010)
- HMS Richmond arrives in the Pool of London (5 Jul 2010)
- Boris Johnson teaches Latin class at St Saviour's & St Olave's (26 May 2010)
- New masts for HMS Belfast made in Russian shipyard (9 May 2010)
- 65 years on: Victory Day celebrations at Southwark's Soviet War Memorial (9 May 2010)
- HMS Belfast celebrates £250,000 restoration (19 Mar 2010)
- South Tower Social at the Old Mayfair Carpet Gallery (17 Jan 2010)
- Defeat of 'Hitler's secret weapon' remembered on board HMS Belfast (27 Nov 2009)
- More than 100 people rescued from Thames during Great River Race (10 Sep 2009)
- Outbreak 1939 at the Imperial War Museum (23 Aug 2009)
- Parade across Tower Bridge to Potters Fields Park for Armed Forces Day (26 Jun 2009)
- 10 years of Southwark's memorial to the Soviet war dead (10 May 2009)
- Volunteers strip off for airline's South Bank publicity stunt (15 Mar 2009)
- HMS Westminster visits the Pool of London (21 Nov 2008)
- Diane Lees starts work as Imperial War Museum director-general (1 Oct 2008)
- DRIFT 08 brings accessible contemporary art to the Thames (30 Sep 2008)
- Cat drowned at HMS Belfast: police release CCTV image (9 Jul 2008)
- Celebrity congratulations for Southwark's young ambassadors (11 Nov 2007)
- Queen and Prince Philip visit Pool of London (17 Oct 2007)
- Flypast and gun salute for veterans' ceremony at HMS Belfast (5 Sep 2007)
- Navy cats return to HMS Belfast (12 Aug 2007)
- Harry Potter movie stars at County Hall (25 Jun 2007)
- Swedish ship Gotheborg visits Pool of London (20 May 2007)
- Southwark remembers its war dead (12 Nov 2006)
- October half term ideas (20 Oct 2006)
Forum discussions about HMS Belfast
- Columbus arrives at Tower Bridge
- Mayan Queen IV - 92m "megayacht"
- Photography classes
- Audience wanted for BBC food show at Waterloo Brasserie on Wednesday evening
- Three Houses [major London Bridge development by Sellar, designed by Herzog & de Meuron]
- Help to find a leaf picker-upper
- Billboards London Mayor
- Cheeky boys visit
- Apocalypse Now...
- Mayflower trust???
- New to the Area
- Wedding venues - help
- Stopping the cyclists at More London
- St George's Circus - did you notice this?
- HMS Belfast
- Sunday roast at the Blueprint Café
- Southwark Stakeholders Concerned about Licensing Policy
- Dance lessons
- Gun salute at HMS Belfast
- What's with the half plane...?
Restaurants, pubs & bars close to HMS Belfast
- The Horniman at Hay's (118 yards)
- Cote Brasserie (128 yards)
- The Fish Restaurant at Balls Brothers (154 yards)
- Bagel Factory (162 yards)
- Cafe Rouge (172 yards)
- Dim T (172 yards)
- Gaucho (182 yards)
- Itsu (198 yards)
- Pod (198 yards)
- Pret a Manger (200 yards)
- Starbucks (204 yards)
- Cafe Amore (204 yards)
- The Larder (212 yards)
- Ruba Bar (212 yards)
- Strada (214 yards)
- Over the Moon (220 yards)