New bow fitted to Queen Elizabeth carrier

Navy Net ^

[Smartisan]

Aircraft Carrier Alliance workers at Rosyth in Scotland successfully attached a 1,000-tonne bow unit to the huge ship, completing the forward part of her hull.

Yesterday, 7 February, the forward island section of the ship departed from Portsmouth to join the other parts of the vessel in Rosyth.

[GeronL]

That is a big bow, who tied it?

//sarcasm

[moose07]

Nice...

[mountn man]

So is this going to be called the QE3? /sarc>

[Huskrrrr]

Bow envy.

[SandRat]

Is that to be the class or the name? If it’s to be the name, that alone will make it target #1 for any enemy of the Crown to attack and sink.

[Rockingham]

The Brits are determined to build and equip two smallish entries in the modern supercarrier class — which is a wise precaution given that the Argentines are making noises again about the Falklands. Apart from national pride, the likelihood of substantial oil and gas deposits makes retention of those remote islands a paying proposition despite the burden of defending them.

[Oztrich Boy]

OK yes technically this is a brand new bow. However the use of the adjective misleads as it implies there was some old bow that was replaced.

[Sigurdrifta]

I would be more worried about the name they are going to give the second carrier: HMS Prince of Wales.

[Delta Dawn]

‘However the use of the adjective misleads as it implies there was some old bow that was replaced.’

Yeah, I was kinda thinking along the same lines.

I even started to look up the 1-800 # for the Royal navy to see if I could make a spot bid on the old bow.

[Smartisan]

Thanks for putting the pic up, couldn’t figure it out.

[jmacusa]

Take heart. They could have named it ‘’HMS Hood’’.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Didn’t turn out too well for the last HMS Prince of Wales either. Unfortunately.

[mikrofon]

[okie01]

Is that to be the class or the name? If it’s to be the name, that alone will make it target #1 for any enemy of the Crown to attack and sink.

It's both.

And she's not the first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_battleship

Interestingly, the WWII Queen Elizabeth spent a couple of years sitting on the bottom of Alexandria Harbor. She and her sister ship, the Valiant, were both sunk at dockside by Italian frogmen.

But, since the harbor bottom was only a couple of feet below her keel, her condition wasn't readily apparent. The British set about repairing the two ships where they lay...and the Italians never realized the attack had been successful.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Why didn’t we just sell or give them the USS Enterprise and another fleet carrier?

[Red Steel]

Or the HMS Repulse.

[GeronL]

1,000 tons seems like a bit much for one of those. :)

[GeronL]

we could name a ship after Mooshell... the Repulsive!

[GeronL]

That is an interesting tidbit