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 (1875), a passenger steamer of the Irish Steam Packet Line, sank in September 1883 after a storm.[ citation needed]
- 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
- ^ 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.
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list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
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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 (1875), a passenger steamer of the Irish Steam Packet Line, sank in September 1883 after a storm.[ citation needed]
- 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
- ^ 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.
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.