Royal Navy Museums: HMS Caroline

HMS Caroline sits in the Alexandra Dock, a light cruiser easily spotted by her dazzle camouflage pattern of jagged blue, gray, and white stripes. She is the last survivor of the Battle of Jutland, the massive nineteen sixteen clash between the British and German fleets. While other ships were scrapped for steel, Caroline stayed in Belfast for a century as a training vessel. A sailor once described her interior as a wooden maze of tight corridors, smelling perpetually of paint, grease, and strong tea.