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HMS Queen Elizabeth Takes To The Sea For The First Time!
Friday 30th June 2017
The first QE Class aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has taken to the open ocean for the first time, setting sail from Rosyth to spend approximately six weeks at sea to test her fundamentals.
Trials on the water will include monitoring of power, speed, propulsion and manoeuvrability, as well as weapons trials and further tests on levels of readiness. After this, the ship will head back to Rosyth for further maintenance and testing before going back out to sea to test the Mission Systems. Later on in the year, she will make her way to Portsmouth Naval Base and be handed over to the Royal Navy.
The ship herself is in fact the biggest and most powerful warship that's ever been built for the Royal Navy, boasting a crew of around 700 at the moment, which will increase to 1,600 when aircraft are in operation.
"HMS Queen Elizabeth is an enduring example of British imagination, ingenuity, invention that will help keep us safe for decades to come. She is built by the best, crewed by the best and will deliver for Britain. For the next 50 years she will deploy around the world, demonstrating British power and our commitment to confronting the emerging challenges from a dangerous world. The whole country can be proud of this national achievement," defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon said.
Her aircraft carriers are being delivered by the Aircraft Carrier Alliance, made up of BAE Systems, Thales UK, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Babcock. BAE Systems also recently announced that it had been awarded a £1.4 billion contract by the MoD to deliver the Royal Navy with another nuclear-powered attack submarine.
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