Construction
Bulwark was laid down by the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast on 10 May 1945. She was launched on 22 June 1948, but was not commissioned into the Royal Navy until 4 November 1954.
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“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
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