The Royal Navy carried out repairs on its flagship aircraft carrier just weeks before the £3.2billion ship is due to set sail on its maiden world voyage. The HMS Queen Elizabeth, known as ‘Big Lizzie’, was flooded with salt water following the ‘minor breach’ of a pipe when she sailed from Portsmouth to Scotland in March. The Navy … Read more
The Royal Navy carried out repairs on its flagship aircraft carrier just weeks before the £3.2billion ship is due to set sail on its maiden world voyage. The HMS Queen Elizabeth, known as ‘Big Lizzie’, was flooded with salt water following the ‘minor breach’ of a pipe when she sailed from Portsmouth to Scotland in March. The Navy … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: You know you’re posh when your pet mongoose nabs HM’s choccies By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 02:10 BST, 2 April 2021 | Updated: 03:04 BST, 2 April 2021 My Years With The Queen Rating: Pandemic 2020 Rating: When the Queen comes to stay, she brings chocolates. … Read more
Britain’s most powerful warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has loaded with munitions ahead of its first operational deployment later this spring. The £3bn aircraft carrier has spent the past month on further sea trials before the visit to the new Northern Ammunition Jetty in Glen Mallan, Loch Long. The fleet flagship was the first visitor to … Read more
SNP supporter is left red-faced when she demands to know why HMS Queen Elizabeth is allowed to visit Scotland – only to be told it is the aircraft carrier, not the monarch Twitter user Kerry Newton confused Police’s message about aircraft carrier thinking it was about the Queen Ms Newton questioned why the Queen was … Read more
HMS Queen Elizabeth – named after 16th century monarch Elizabeth I – is the lead ship of the Queen Elizabeth-Class of aircraft carriers. Its sister ship is HMS Prince of Wales. The ships, which together cost more than £6billion, are the largest in the history of the Royal Navy. Last month, it was reported that flagship … Read more
A Royal Navy warship has monitored a Russian attack submarine as the vessel travelled through British waters. Portsmouth-based patrol ship HMS Mersey tracked the surfaced submarine, RFS Rostov Na Donu, as it moved through the North Sea and the English Channel. The Kilo-class diesel powered attack submarine was moving through on its journey from the Baltic … Read more
A sad end for HMS Active, which survived Falklands War battles, only to be used as target practice and sunk in Pakistan navy drill HMS Active is a Type 21 frigate which was transferred to Pakistan in 1994 The frigate was sunk during a Pakistan navy drill in the North Arabian Sea Type-21 Class frigate … Read more
Britain’s newest aircraft carrier will be stranded in Portsmouth until May next year after a second flood wrecked the vessel’s vital electrical systems. HMS Prince of Wales has been banned from setting sail from its home port on safety grounds after thousands of gallons of sea water poured into the vessel’s engine room for more … Read more
A Royal Navy ship was given a hero’s welcome this morning as it returned to port in Portsmouth after shadowing and gatherings intelligence on Russian warships travelling around the UK. HMS Lancaster returned to the naval base in Hampshire having completed a tour to the High North where it led a freedom of navigation operation, leading a multi-national task group … Read more