For the Love of the Navy by Ray Hamilton

Author:Ray Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Published: 2017-10-07T00:00:00+00:00

HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH

Here are some more great facts about the biggest ship ever built for the Navy.

She will provide 8 acres of sovereign territory wherever in the world she happens to be.

Along with HMS Prince of Wales, she is destined to be the jewel in the crown of the UK’s defence capability for fifty years to come, which means her last commanding officer hasn’t yet been born.

She is longer than the Houses of Parliament and taller than Niagara Falls (from keel to masthead).

It has taken twenty years to design and build her.

Her leading-edge technology includes an innovative thermal metal coating to make her deck scorch resistant to the heat generated by the powerful thrust of the F-35B Lightning II jets.

Each of the two huge aircraft lifts can take two F-35B jets (or the entire ship’s crew) from the hangar to the flight deck in sixty seconds.

The ship’s range is 8,000–10,000 nautical miles (about the distance from London to New Zealand).

If the cable used for her on-board systems was laid end to end, it would stretch from London to Gibraltar.

She was assembled at Rosyth Dockyard on the Firth of Forth, with many of the ‘blocks’ being supplied from other shipbuilding yards around the country.

There are two ‘islands’ on the deck, one for the ship’s bridge and the other for air traffic control.

Her painted surface would cover 208 football pitches.

Each of her two propellers weighs 33 tonnes, which is 2.5 times the weight of a double-decker bus.

The 80,000 tonnes of steel used to build her was three times that required for Wembley Stadium.

Sea trials and operations will be carried out from her home base at HMNB Portsmouth, where she will loom large above everything else in port.

A replica of the carrier’s operations room was set up in HMS Collingwood to train the ship’s company on the mission system, which includes communications, mission planning, air traffic control, navigation, tactical data and visual surveillance.

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