The final section of the Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier was completed at BAE Systems in Scotstoun in Glasgow yesterday.
The Aft Island section of the carrier will be loaded
onto a barge before being transported to Rosyth where the rest of the
ship is being constructed.
Six UK shipyards are involved in
building various parts of the ship. The vessel will not be finished
until 2016 at the earliest, and may not be ready for active service
until 2020, when it will be based in Portsmouth.
The navy is
expected to have no aircraft carriers between 2014, when HMS Illustrious
is taken out of service, and 2016, when HMS Queen Elizabeth is
completed. The government decided to retire the HMS Ark Royal and its
fleet of Harrier jump jets in 2011, five years early.
Constructed by the Aircraft Carrier Alliance, the Queen Elizabeth will be the Royal Navy’s largest ever warship.
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