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Vicinity
+ Vicinity
Walk/Drive
Food&Drink
In The Know
Did You Know?
( Worth Seeing )
HMS Belfast is Europe's last surviving big warship from World War II and occupies a spectacular permanent mooring site on the Thames just upstream from Tower Bridge, opposite Southwark Crown Court. Launched in 1938, she saw action in the Arctic, at the D-Day Normandy landings and in the Korean War from 1950 to 1952, before being decommissioned.
Today her seven cramped labyrinthine decks, which once accommodated a crew of up to 800 men, serve as a museum, giving landlubbers a salty flavour of the rigours of serving at sea. The bridge, galley, operations room, punishment cells, engine and boiler rooms can all be explored. There are also various naval displays.
Address: Morgan's Lane, off Tooley Street
Phone: (020) 7940 6320
Open: Daily Mar-Oct 10-6, Nov-Feb 10-5 (last admission 45 minutes before closing). Closed 24-26 Dec
Restaurant: Café(Inexpensive)
Metro: London Bridge, Tower Hill. Ferry from Tower Hill pier in summer
Accessible: None
Admission: Moderate. Children free
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