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HMS Belfast

2 Deck

Free event with general admission

With nearly a thousand sailors to feed, HMS Belfast produced food on an industrial scale. The ranges cooked all day, making meals such as roast beef with potatoes and sticky toffee pudding.

In Feeding the Crew, you will find the beef screen and potato store where ingredients were stored. Step inside the bakery where fresh bread was baked every day, and explore the galley where meals were prepared.

Highlights

  • Galley interactives HMS Belfast

    A hungry crew depending on you!

    Enter the galley and see if you have what it takes to feed the entire crew in our interactive games. Peel the potatoes, fry the sausages, make the soups and mix the custard. 

  • Sailor surrounded by loaves of fresh bread (colour image)
    © IWM TR 321

    Belfast’s bakery

    Head to the bakery to discover how flour bags saved two crew members’ lives just a few months after the ship launched.

  • A black cat plays with a rope onboard ship
    © IWM A 10647

    Look out for the cat!

    Cats were vital members of a ship's crew, especially for catching mice and rats and keeping them away from the food stores.

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