Repair and refurbishment work on HMS Caroline is approaching its final stages in Belfast. A £15million restoration project is on course to convert HMS Caroline, the Battle of Jutland’s last surviving warship, into a floating museum in time for next year’s centenary commemorations of the 1916 First World War battle which was fought off the coast of Denmark.

HMS Caroline is light cruiser, weighing 3,750 tons. It was built on Merseyside in 1914. Six years after the war ended, HMS Caroline was moved from Portsmouth to Belfast to become a training vessel for local Royal Navy Reserves. It performed its function as a drill ship until 2011.

HMS Caroline will reopen exactly one hundred years after the Battle of Jutland on 1 June 2016. Work is now being carried out to turn HMS Caroline into a world-class museum, community centre and a meeting and conference venue.

Following completion of the first phase of development, the ship will be dry docked for hull conservation works, which will be followed by completion of onshore facilities.

Details:  www.nmrn.org.uk