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HMS Belfast

HMS Belfast will be the third of the City Class Type 26 frigates – fast, flexible ships fit for the future. She will enter service in the mid-2020s.

HMS Belfast

Role

The new HMS Belfast is set to enter service in the mid-2020s. She has been designed to deliver manpower and capabilities to meet the challenges tomorrow may bring. 

With a truly global reach, Belfast’s missions will be varied: protecting the UK’s strategic interests, our nuclear submarines, and delivering high-end warfighting capability whenever and wherever she is needed.

You may be familiar with the original ship, which now belongs to Imperial War Museums and is permanently docked in London near Tower Bridge. Before the new HMS Belfast commissions, the original will be renamed ‘HMS Belfast 1938’, the year the ship was launched.
 

City Class

Unit history

1938

The First HMS Belfast

Just before the start of the Second World War, the original HMS Belfast was commissioned, built at Harland and Wolff shipyard.
1938

Battle Honours

She went on to support the Battle of North Cape, the Normandy landings and the Korean War.
1938

Retirement

The original ship was gifted to the Imperial War Museums and is permanently docked in London.
2017

First Steel is Cut

Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon began the steel cutting for HMS Glasgow, Belfast’s sister-ship, and the first in a new generation of City-class frigates.
2020

2020s

Before the new HMS Belfast commissions, the original HMS Belfast will be renamed ‘HMS Belfast 1938’, the year the ship was launched

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