HMS Belfast is a Town class light cruiser currently moored in London on the River Thames. She serves as a museum ship under the Imperial War Museum. Commissioned in 1939, Belfast saw active service during the Second World War and later the Korean War. She underwent modernization several times during her career until entering the reserve in 1963. In 1978 Belfast was preserved as a museum ship and opened to the public. Since then restoration has continued and more areas of the ship are now open to the public. In 1999 Belfast was repainted in the Royal Navy’s classic Razzle Dazzle camouflage.