Posted on 12/07/2017 7:46:38 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
It was more than 70 years ago, in the closing months of the war in Europe, that Princess Elizabeth launched her first warship at the age of 18.
Then it was the mighty battleship Vanguard, the last of its kind to serve in the Royal Navy.
And yesterday, aged 91, the Queen commissioned Britain’s biggest ever warship, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, into the Royal Navy.
In a moving speech to the crew while stood in the hangar of the 65,000 ton aircraft carrier at Portsmouth naval base, she said it embodied the ‘best of British’.
The Queen said: ‘The most powerful and capable ship ever to raise the White Ensign, she will in the years and decades ahead represent the country’s resolve on the global stage.’
Dressed in all purple, the Queen said the new £3.1billion vessel ‘embodies the best of British technology and innovation, a true flagship for the 21st century’.
She praised the service personnel who will crew the carrier, saying: ‘As the daughter, wife and mother of naval officers, I recognise the unique demands our nation asks of you and I will always value my special link with HMS Queen Elizabeth, her ship’s company and their families.’
In November 1944, as Princess Elizabeth, she launched the 44,500 ton HMS Vanguard at Clydebank, near Glasgow. She visited the ship again in 1946, and it carried her to South Africa in 1947 on a royal tour with her parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and sister, Princess Margaret.
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Do I note correctly the presence of four catapults?
No airplanes, two islands, and rocking Windows XP on all the onboard computers.
Good to see British engineering prowess is still up to standards.
Odd to design a freaking carrier around one and only one airframe.
Nope, no catapults or arresting gear!
That looks like a model of the Gerald Ford. Incredible photo.
It certainly looks that way.
Okay. I contacted the mods to have it removed.
I’m glad I saw it before the mods. Cute figures.
#19. As Mel Brooks used to say, “It’s great to be queen”.
I wonder how long it’ll take until the brits mothball it to pay for more muslim invaders.
The Queen has a great sense of humour..hope she enjoyed it.
Last I read about it the Brits won’t have any planes for it.
Does it have a prayer room for the Moozie?
Let’s hope they don’t have a crew of islam filth on it.
I’m surprised that had the money to even build it.
"And with an operational range of 10,000 nautical miles" wow, so nobody over there has thought of using nuclear reactors?
Alas the twilight of the once might British Empire now reduced to playing with Lego blocks. Pray that the usa won't get to that but we got $20 trillion debt hanging over our heads and a lot of sin to repent for that can spell our demise.
Yes, that's it - I visited there last December. Had a tour of the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, too.
Not so odd when you remember that the Royal Navy's previous generation of carriers (the Invincible class) did exactly the same, and it turned out to be a highly successful partnership. Whether the F35 turns out to be as effective as the Harrier was remains to be seen, however.
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