LONDON Cheap Andrew Ladd Jersey , Sept.28 (Xinhua) -- One of London's top tourist attractions has been given a new name, to stop people seeing double.
The retired warship HMS Belfast sits in the River Thames, close to Tower Bridge, attracting thousands of visitors a year as part of the Imperial War Museum collection.
HMS Belfast was launched just before the outbreak of World War II and became one of the most famous ships of the 20th century. Today she survives as a floating museum.
A year ahead of her 80th birthday, the warship has now been given a new name, HMS Belfast 38 Cheap John Tavares Jersey , commemorating the year she entered service.
It follows the naming in Belfast on Wednesday of one of the Royal Navy's 21st century frigates, as HMS Belfast.
The second to be named in a brand new fleet of eight cutting-edge, anti-submarine warfare frigates, HMS Belfast will provide advanced protection for Britain's nuclear deterrent and the two Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers.
Defense Secretary Michael Fallon revealed the name at the Belfast shipyard of Harland and Wolff, where her namesake was built for the Royal Navy's in 1938.
Fallon said: "I'm hugely proud that the second name announced of our new Type 26 frigates will be HMS Belfast. She and her sister ships will form the backbone of our Navy well into the 2060s. It's apt to name this ship at the famous site which built the very first HMS Belfast."
The new HMS Belfast is set to enter service in the mid-2020s and, along with her fellow Type 26 frigates.
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