Yahoo Finance Take a 360° tour of HMS Belfast as D Day warship marks 80th anniversary
Blasts from HMS Belfast's six inch guns rang out across London as war heroes who served on the historic warship boarded the vessel once again.
In this video from November 2016, Kevin Price, Chief Yeoman of the HMS Belfast, takes you on a 360 tour around the ship, including the view from the deck as the crew raises the flag and inside the impressive engine room.
“HMS Belfast has got a big history really," says Price, who has been working on the ship for the past 13 years. "She first entered service into the Royal Navy on August 5, 1939, and she was probably blown up on November 21 of that year."
After undergoing extensive repairs, HMS Belfast re-entered service. "She was one of the leading components if you like," the Chief Yeoman continues. "She was the Eastern Sector bombardment commander there to support the troops for D-Day, eventually into home waters for a modernisation refit in '56-'59, back out to the Far East showing the flag, and eventually she stopped running in 1963 and she entered the reserve fleet."
Working on board the historic ship is clearly a passion for Price, who says it brings him great pleasure to welcome veterans whenever they visit.
“The best parts of the job I suppose really is to be able to tell the sailors' stories," he says. "It is so important that we can tell their stories, and it is always a pleasure to greet and meet veterans when they visit. Their faces light up and they beam and it’s like a sense of coming back home again.”
Future episodes in this series will give you a behind-the-scenes glimpse at some of the nation’s most fun and unusual jobs, including making gin in a boutique distillery and a day in the life of a model maker at LEGOLAND, while last week's video took you on a tour of the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford.
