Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

[cockneyjock1974]

This is fairly recent according to the source. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5375753

[bobp]

Great picture shows that most of the flight deck is complete.

[serge750]

Awsome find CJ, Yeh she looks loads better with the deck painted...so close

[Repulse]

According to the Portsmouth News, Fallon has said that QE will start trails in "weeks" and will be in Pompey by the Autumn.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/defenc ... -1-7949295

[RNFollower]

Seems like only yesterday the first steel was cut. Now we are nearly at the sea trials stage

[cockneyjock1974]

Seems like only yesterday the first steel was cut. Now we are nearly at the sea trials stage

I can remember standing on the flight deck and most of the stern was open plan and exposed to the elements lol.

[jimthelad]

My nuts have only just defrosted from that one

[Jdam]

But what a site it was (the Queen Elizabeth not Jims nuts )

[SDL]

It was quite something to walk (Hobble in my case) under & on the QE. I'm planning on going down to see her arrive in Pompy, though it all depends on just when and how much it will cost to get there.

[serge750]

Looking up to her flightdeck from the bottom of the bulbous bow was immense...

[Pymes75]

It was quite something to walk (Hobble in my case) under & on the QE. I'm planning on going down to see her arrive in Pompy, though it all depends on just when and how much it will cost to get there.

I'm hoping to get down to Pompey for her arrival too! We'll have to go for a pint for old times' sake...

[SDL]

It was quite something to walk (Hobble in my case) under & on the QE. I'm planning on going down to see her arrive in Pompy, though it all depends on just when and how much it will cost to get there.

I'm hoping to get down to Pompey for her arrival too! We'll have to go for a pint for old times' sake...

That would be a good idea, maybe a meet up again if there's a group going?

[inch]

how do we find out if there is an open day to the public and how do we sign on ? any advice folks

[imperialman]

It was quite something to walk (Hobble in my case) under & on the QE. I'm planning on going down to see her arrive in Pompy, though it all depends on just when and how much it will cost to get there.

I'm still having flashbacks of slipping down the stairs under the forward island and booting someone in the aft.

[QEC Eye in the SKY]

This is fairly recent according to the source. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5375753

Doesn't she look like a REAL carrier from above? In fact, you'd say she looks like one of the American carriers instead of what we've had this last thirty years.

[Sunk at Narvik]

PoW in the dock at top right (: Is that a sub in the dock alongside?

[Adam]

I agree, she looks the part from above. An awesome sight of a supercarrier, indistinguishable from American carriers. I have said it before and will say it again, she's a beauty!

[R686]

I agree, she looks the part from above. An awesome sight of a supercarrier, indistinguishable from American carriers. I have said it before and will say it again, she's a beauty!

I just hope now that are they are about to come online that those pulling the purse strings get there collective heads out of the pigs trough and relies that cronic underfunding is doing more damage than good. With the escort shortage my greatest fear is that they will pull up stumps and sell one off, and shed crocodile tears.

[KMP1230]

PoW in the dock at top right (: Is that a sub in the dock alongside?

Thats probably HMS Swifsure, due to be the first nuclear sub to be fully scapped as a demonstrator for the rest. The dock has a special crane fitted to do this.
As an aside I notice on maritime traffic that there is a type 23 just arrived in Rosyth (probably St Albans the fleet ready escort) is this coincidence or signs that an escorted new carrier may be going out on trials??
http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/hom ... 21/zoom:16

[cyrilranch]

This is fairly recent according to the source. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5375753

Is it me or are there few building missing that were used to be there building the various blocks of QEC/POW.?

[dmereifield]

As an aside I notice on maritime traffic that there is a type 23 just arrived in Rosyth (probably St Albans the fleet ready escort) is this coincidence or signs that an escorted new carrier may be going out on trials??
http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/hom ... 21/zoom:16

Would she be assigned an escort for initial trials?

[Timmymagic]

This is fairly recent according to the source. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5375753

Is the tentage on the catwalk area of PoW inidicative of them being ahead of schedule? They only did that work on QE when she was in the basin IIRC. Presumably PoW will be a little further along than QE was when they float her out, perhaps the small delay to QE going on her sea trials may mean the PoW gets more time under the Goliath and is further along (and with all of the lessons learned) by the time she is floated out?

[shark bait]

Is that a sub in the dock alongside?

yep, trial run of sub disposal, thats the future of the yard.

Presumably PoW will be a little further along than QE was when they float her out,

PoW's blocks where delivered with more work done than QE, and she went together quicker, so it does stand to reason she is further ahead. (relatively)

I agree, she looks the part from above. An awesome sight of a supercarrier, indistinguishable from American carriers. I have said it before and will say it again, she's a beauty!

She totally does now the red had gone, starting to look ready, nearly time to put the RN back into the big league.

[KMP1230]

As an aside I notice on maritime traffic that there is a type 23 just arrived in Rosyth (probably St Albans the fleet ready escort) is this coincidence or signs that an escorted new carrier may be going out on trials??
http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/hom ... 21/zoom:16

Would she be assigned an escort for initial trials?

Wishful thinking on my part, she certainly deserves a full escort! I hope the timing of this is not a consequence of the political landscape at present both north and south of the border preventing the RN from celebrating.....

[Defiance]

She totally does now the red had gone, starting to look ready, nearly time to put the RN back into the big league.

I'm wary of this. I'm dead keen to see her in service but I know i'm going to see her on a COUGAR deployment with no escorts beyond a French frigate because we can't put anything in the water.