Royal Navy’s new £3.1bn aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth finally sets sail from Portsmouth to join a dozen US and UK F-35B fighter jets in the North Sea for final battle-ready tests – after Covid outbreak among crew delayed mission 65,000-tonne warship sailed out in glorious sunshine on Monday to take part in major exercises … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Alex Beresford looks shaky as he carefully scales the mast of HMS Warrior in Portsmouth in new ITV series All Around Britain By Roxy Simons and Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 15:51 BST, 19 September 2020 | Updated: 15:51 BST, 19 September 2020 Alex Beresford was tasked with climbing the mast of a ship … Read more
Big Lizzie is back in business: Royal Navy’s £3bn aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth gives sunworshippers a show on its way back from exercises following Covid outbreak The 65,000-tonne, £3.1 billion vessel had to postpone exercises last week after a Covid-19 outbreak on board Seven of its crew tested positive and around 100 were forced … Read more
Crowds wave off Big Lizzie as Royal Navy’s flagship departs Portsmouth after two-day delay due to crew testing positive for coronavirus The HMS Queen Elizabeth was to leave Portsmouth Naval Base on Monday afternoon for a training exercise Departure was put on hold at last moment after ‘fewer than 10’ crew members tested positive for … Read more
Big Lizzie goes sick: Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth postpones sailing from Portsmouth base after crew members test positive for Covid-19 Up to nine of the ship’s crew members have tested positive for coronavirus Around 100 further members of crew are isolating onboard and will be retested The vessel was due to … Read more
Big Lizzie goes sick: Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth postpones sailing from Portsmouth base after crew members test positive for Covid-19 Up to nine of the ship’s crew members have tested positive for coronavirus Around 100 further members of crew are isolating onboard and will be retested The vessel was due to … Read more
Now Charles Darwin gets cancelled: Natural History museum will review ‘offensive’ exhibitions about the Father of Evolution because HMS Beagle’s Galapagos voyage was ‘colonialist’ Natural History museum warns its Charles Darwin exhibits ‘may be offensive’ in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests Museum execs ordered review into museum’s links to slavery and colonialism Collections under review … Read more
To say the HMS Hermes had a difficult start to life would be understating the fact – construction on the aircraft carrier, initially dubbed HMS Elephant, began in 1944 during World War Two, but conflict ended before she had been completed. Her hull then sat in the dockyard in Barrow-in-Furness until 1953, when it was … Read more
Royal Navy’s newest £100m warship HMS Trent breaks down nine days into its maiden voyage and hauled back to port in Gibraltar The 90-metre ship had to be dragged back to port after only nine days at sea The Royal Navy said she was experiencing a defect and was waiting for parts The captain and … Read more
One of Britain’s new £3billion aircraft carriers could be sent to the Far East under new plans drawn up by military chiefs, reports today suggest. The class leading HMS Queen Elizabeth is expected to visit the region during its maiden grand voyage next year. The aircraft carrier is set to be involved in joint military … Read more