Last Big Gun (ePub)
At War and at Sea with HMS Belfast
(Sprache: Englisch)
As she lay in dry dock, devastatingly damaged by one of Hitler¿s newly deployed magnetic mines after barely two months in service, few could have predicted the illustrious career that lay ahead for the cruiser HMS Belfast. After three years of repairs to...
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As she lay in dry dock, devastatingly damaged by one of Hitler¿s newly deployed magnetic mines after barely two months in service, few could have predicted the illustrious career that lay ahead for the cruiser HMS Belfast. After three years of repairs to her broken keel, engine- and boiler-rooms, and extensive refitting, she would go on to play a critical role in the protection of the Arctic Convoys, would fire one of the opening shots at D-Day and continue supporting the Operation Overlord landings for five weeks.
Her service continued beyond the Second World War both in Korea and in the Far East before she commenced her life as one of the world¿s most celebrated preserved visitor ships in the Pool of London. Her crowning glory however came in December 1943 when, equipped with the latest radar technology, she was to play the leading role in the Battle of the North Cape sinking the feared German battlecruiser Scharnhorst, the bête noir of the Royal Navy. In...
Her service continued beyond the Second World War both in Korea and in the Far East before she commenced her life as one of the world¿s most celebrated preserved visitor ships in the Pool of London. Her crowning glory however came in December 1943 when, equipped with the latest radar technology, she was to play the leading role in the Battle of the North Cape sinking the feared German battlecruiser Scharnhorst, the bête noir of the Royal Navy. In...
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Brian Lavery
- 2015, Englisch
- Verlag: The Pool of London Press
- ISBN-10: 1910860077
- ISBN-13: 9781910860076
- Erscheinungsdatum: 29.10.2015
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