Saturday 3 May 2025 | Booking closes 18 April
HMS Belfast
Adults
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Join us aboard HMS Belfast for an afternoon tea commemorating the eightieth anniversary of the VE Day celebrations of May 1945.
The afternoon will begin with a talk in the Officer’s dining room. An expert IWM guide will explore the world of wartime cuisine in the Royal Navy and reveal how the officers and ratings who served aboard HMS Belfast would have dined during the Second World War.
Following the talk, take your seat for a luxury afternoon tea, with a menu specially curated to pay tribute to 1940s rationing and naval recipes.
After your afternoon tea, spend the rest of your day freely exploring the decks of HMS Belfast.
Menu
Enjoy a gin and tonic on your arrival to HMS Belfast, the drink of choice for the ship’s officers.
Sandwich selection
Smoked salmon on brown bread, representing ‘National Loaf’, a wholemeal bread recipe introduced in the Second World War.
Cucumber and cream cheese finger sandwiches.
House-cured bully beef and English mustard. Bully beef formed an essential part of British servicemen’s diets during both World Wars.
Cakes
Carrot Cake
Ration Cake, an eggless low fat cake, popular on the Home Front when rationing was in effect.
Rock Cake with Clotted Cream and Strawberry Jam
Fairtrade Tea
