List of ships named Belfast
Appearance
Several ships have been named Belfast:
- PS Belfast, a paddle steamer built in 1829 for service between Glasgow and Belfast, then HMS Prospero from 1837
- SS Belfast (1884), a Dublin-Liverpool passenger-cargo steamer of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, later sold to Latvia[1]
- SS Belfast (1908), a coastal passenger ship of Eastern Steamship Lines, running between Boston, Massachusetts and Bangor, Maine[2]
- HMS Belfast, a Town-class cruiser launched in 1938, now a museum ship in London
- USS Belfast, a Tacoma-class frigate in commission from 1943 to 1945 and then transferred to the Soviet Union
- HMS Belfast (Type 26 frigate), the third planned of the type
References
[edit]- ^ McNeill, D B (1971). Irish Passenger Steamship Services - Vol 2: South of Ireland. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. pp. 45, 185. ISBN 0-7153-5248-2.
- ^ Pinette, Megan S; McLean, Jane B (2020). Images of America: Belfast. Charleston SC: Arcadia Publishing. pp. 68–70. ISBN 1439670137.