#BelfastLough - The Belfast Telegraph reports on the weekend visit to Belfast Lough paid by the Royal Navy's latest warship HMS Duncan.
Along with Dundee in eastern Scotland, Belfast is an adoptive city of the 152m-long vessel, which docked at quayside in Belfast yesterday (Sunday 27 July) after sailing up Belfast Lough on Friday to conduct a number of official engagements.
The Belfast Telegraph has much more HERE.
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