World's Greatest Ships
Season 1
Ep 6. Belfast
- December 15, 2018
- 43 min
This the story of the only surviving British warship to bombard the Normandy coast on D-Day. Host Rob Bell clambers aboard, experiencing first-hand the awesome power of its guns. He gets a taste of life on board, from the daily tot of rum, to the hammocks and officers' cabins. He re-lives the Battle of North Cape where Belfast took on the mighty German battleship Scharnhorst.