From the October 19, 2010, Moscow Times.
A team of Russian shipwrights have helped Great Britain repair the legendary Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Belfast. New fore and main masts have been installed at a cost of 300,000 pounds, with Britain not paying a cent.
The ship is being repaired as a Russian thank you for its service during World War II when it protected Arctic convoys that supplied the Soviet Union in its fight against Germany.
Today, it is the only European ship from the war still afloat. It was built in 1938 and in the early 1970s, became a floating museum moored in the Thames River in London
The hull and masts have become badly corroded.
Always Great to Save Something That Old. --Cooter
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