| I totally agree about Belfast as well no disrespect to the lads that served on her and perhaps its not even my place to say so but I cant help feeling its the fact that Lord Mountbatten did'nt have room in his duck pond after the war so they moored her there....
I mean for starters the old lady had 8 X 15" main guns and 14 x 6" Secondary guns
HMS Belfast on had 12 X 6" main guns plus some 4"......
Bet them Jerry captains had a heart attack when the warspite steared into the Fjiords after them after all she was a battleship
I have already posted somewhere on here as to some of the stories my step-father Cyril told me of the sad times and the good......none more so after the landings at Salerno after she was hit by a glider bomb and lot of their mates were killed!
Him and one of the other lads had all the daily rum rations donated by their shipmates as they sat pi**ed as farts and sang songs as they stitched their mates in body bags ready for the burials at sea...........the look on his face was something I will never forget as he recalled it!!!!! god bless them all!
Lee heres a pic for your grandad mate all the best the other Lee
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