HMS Belfast: Naval History Special Edition

＂This special edition covers HMS Belfast, a ship whose long and storied career began just before World War II and included numerous critical battles. During the war, she chased down German battleships and, on 6 June 1944, participated in the largest amphibious landing the world had ever witnessed. HMS Belfast was among the first to fire on D-Day, and Winston Churchill himself had planned to be on board to witness the landings at Normandy until King George VI intervened. Years later, Belfast would go on to hold the line during the crucial weeks when Korea’s future hung in the balance, and she subsequently survived long enough to become the largest museum ship in the United Kingdom＂-- Provided by publisher.

Alexander Pocklington began his professional life as an award-winning engineer, but in the mid-2010s he decided to take up his primary passion, naval history, on a more substantial basis. He started and continues to run the naval history YouTube channel Drachinifel, works with many museums and museum ships, and is also working on several books and on furthering the science of ship preservation. He lives in England.