{"id":16385,"date":"2017-01-19T07:48:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T14:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=16385"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:49:21","slug":"hms-belfast-and-jds-kashima-framed-by-tower-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/hms-belfast-and-jds-kashima-framed-by-tower-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"HMS Belfast and JDS Kashima framed by Tower Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16386\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/168_7546-DNG-london-thames-bridge-tower.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16386\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/168_7546-DNG-london-thames-bridge-tower.jpg\" alt=\"london thames bridge tower\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JDS Kashima (3508) and HMS Belfast in the Thames River<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I took today&#8217;s photo I didn&#8217;t realize its significance or rarity. I took it merely because the war ships were nicely framed by the Tower Bridge from my vantage point at the time (on a ferry boat moving in the middle of the Thames).<\/p>\n<p>However, with a bit of research I realized that the Japanese navy warship, JDS Kashima, is not normally in the Thames. It squeezed under the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/tower-bridge\/>Tower Bridge<\/a> and moored alongside HMS Belfast (which is a museum in the Thames) for just a few days last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I took today&#8217;s photo I didn&#8217;t realize its significance or rarity. I took it merely because the war ships were nicely framed by the Tower Bridge from my vantage point at the time (on a ferry boat moving in the middle of the Thames). However, with a bit of research I realized that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[612],"tags":[419,594,656,619],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31857,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16385\/revisions\/31857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}