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Royal Navy’s new £3.1bn aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth finally sets sail from Portsmouth to join a dozen US and UK F-35B fighter jets in the North Sea for final battle-ready tests – after Covid outbreak among crew delayed mission 65,000-tonne warship sailed out in glorious sunshine on Monday to take part in major exercises … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Alex Beresford looks shaky as he carefully scales the mast of HMS Warrior in Portsmouth in new ITV series All Around Britain By Roxy Simons and Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 15:51 BST, 19 September 2020 | Updated: 15:51 BST, 19 September 2020 Alex Beresford was tasked with climbing the mast of a ship … Read more
Crowds wave off Big Lizzie as Royal Navy’s flagship departs Portsmouth after two-day delay due to crew testing positive for coronavirus The HMS Queen Elizabeth was to leave Portsmouth Naval Base on Monday afternoon for a training exercise Departure was put on hold at last moment after ‘fewer than 10’ crew members tested positive for … Read more
HMS Queen Elizabeth stays in port for second day in a row after crew members tested positive for Covid-19 HMS Queen Elizabeth has been postponed from setting sail for second day It was due to head out for two weeks from Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Up to nine of the ship’s crew members have tested positive … Read more
Big Lizzie goes sick: Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth postpones sailing from Portsmouth base after crew members test positive for Covid-19 Up to nine of the ship’s crew members have tested positive for coronavirus Around 100 further members of crew are isolating onboard and will be retested The vessel was due to … Read more
Big Lizzie goes sick: Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth postpones sailing from Portsmouth base after crew members test positive for Covid-19 Up to nine of the ship’s crew members have tested positive for coronavirus Around 100 further members of crew are isolating onboard and will be retested The vessel was due to … Read more
Cancelling the father of evolution: Natural History museum will review ‘offensive’ Charles Darwin exhibitions because HMS Beagle’s Galapagos voyage was ‘colonialist’ Natural History museum warns its Charles Darwin exhibits ‘may be offensive’ in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests Museum execs ordered review into museum’s links to slavery and colonialism Collections under review include items collected … Read more
To say the HMS Hermes had a difficult start to life would be understating the fact – construction on the aircraft carrier, initially dubbed HMS Elephant, began in 1944 during World War Two, but conflict ended before she had been completed. Her hull then sat in the dockyard in Barrow-in-Furness until 1953, when it was … Read more
Royal Navy’s newest £100m warship HMS Trent breaks down nine days into its maiden voyage and hauled back to port in Gibraltar The 90-metre ship had to be dragged back to port after only nine days at sea The Royal Navy said she was experiencing a defect and was waiting for parts The captain and … Read more
For the first time in 100 years, Lord Nelson’s flagship HMS Victory will be viewable from below – thanks to the installation of 134 metal props and the completion of an under-hull walkway. The support structure, which will also replicate the 3,600-tonne vessel being at sea, comes as part of a 13-year renovation project costing … Read more