HMS Caroline

Belfast


The UK's last surviving WWI Royal Navy cruiser has been converted into a floating museum, docked in Titanic Quarter. Audio tours take in the captain's quarters, officers' cabins, marine's mess, sick bay, engine room and galley kitchen, with interactive exhibits and a film dramatisation of HMS Caroline's role in the 1916 Battle of Jutland. Tickets are valid for one year; buy them at the office in the pump house.


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