Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

[SKB]

[QEC Eye in the SKY]

Flood alert sounded yesterday and all civilian contractors were ordered off the ship. It was a burst pipe which is now fixed.

You can just see the headline from the Daily Fail now "Britain's £6bn supercarrier nearly sunk by faulty plumbing!"

[cockneyjock1974]

Flood alert sounded yesterday and all civilian contractors were ordered off the ship. It was a burst pipe which is now fixed.

You can just see the headline from the Daily Fail now "Britain's £6bn supercarrier nearly sunk by faulty plumbing!"

6 degrees on the down angle, maintain depth of 100 metres

[SKB]

You can just see the headline from the Daily Fail now "Britain's £6bn supercarrier nearly sunk by faulty plumbing!"

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[R686]

You can just see the headline from the Daily Fail now "Britain's £6bn supercarrier nearly sunk by faulty plumbing!"

Daily Fail: "Britain's £6bn supercarrier nearly sunk by faulty plumbing"

QE Nearly Sunk (fake).jpg

not that much under the keel at berth is there, new form of shock testing?

[CameronPerson]

[SKB]

[QEC Eye in the SKY]

You can just see the headline from the Daily Fail now "Britain's £6bn supercarrier nearly sunk by faulty plumbing!"

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DON'T !!! You'll give them idea's ........

[Ron5]

That had better not be real wood on a warship.

[Old RN]

That had better not be real wood on a warship.

I suspect that the last large scale wood used on a major RN was the wooden upperdeck (2 deck IIRC, level of the B turret) on the County class DLGs (Devonshire etc) in the 1960s-1980s.

[SKB]

That had better not be real wood on a warship.

Um....


Do the stores of softwood wedges kept on almost every RN warship for flooding and damage control count?!

(Tom Scott) 7th September 2015

[R686]

That had better not be real wood on a warship.

If it is its most likely coated with some sort of fire retardant, or could be fake panelling.

[SKB]

(Ian Maw) 7th June 2018

[R686]

(Ian Maw) 7th June 2018

God stop showing her rear please.

I wish you never brought up some time ago about those funny faces the rear brings because all I wont to do now is draw on it see what comes of it

[SKB]

God stop showing her rear please.

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Shame she has a sad face on her derrier

I can't unsee that now.....

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You should look at the Ship's Cat Twitter main page title image. I think I might have inspired it!
https://twitter.com/R08Cat?ref_src=twsr ... 0321016832

[PhillyJ]

(Ian Maw) 7th June 2018

God stop showing her rear please.

I wish you never brought up some time ago about those funny faces the rear brings because all I wont to do now is draw on it see what comes of it

I've got all my kids thinking this, every time we go on a harbour tour when she is in port they mention it, in fact I've also heard other passengers say..'oh yes, so it does!'

[SKB]

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QE still listed on QHM Portsmouth for departure at 09:45
https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/qhm/portsm ... 10/06/2018

[SKB]

08:00 - QE's AIS is switched on, on Marine Traffic, QHM still says 09:45 departure....?
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/ho ... 99/zoom:15

08:30 - Tugs are coming out! *grabs camera*

[CameronPerson]

[Timmymagic]

[SKB]

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^ Clarence Pier's famous old "Skyways" rollercoaster was removed last month. Now replaced with a kiddies "Wiggly Worm" 'coaster instead...

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3 blasts from the horn. Still no CIWS. Missing some grey paint on the bow just above the black boot-top line.

[Jdam]

Still impressed every time I see her

She isn't off to the states just yet if I remember correctly?

[Gabriele]

Just a couple of weeks with helicopters (and RAS?) in home waters, for now.

[SKB]

(Eastneyboy2) 10th June 2018 - Gosport & Portsmouth Harbour


(Grahame Milner) 10th June 2018 - Round Tower, Portsmouth.


(Mechanicalheartbeat) 10th June 2018 - Victoria Pier, Portsmouth
^ Good closeups


(Wonkabar007) 10th June 2018 - Sally Port Beach /The Hotwalls, Portsmouth

[SKB]

16:30 - QE has headed west into the English Channel, speeds of up to 26.2 kts have been reached so far. Is now just SE of Torquay, Devon and closer to Devonport than Portsmouth. On Marine Traffic, a ship marked as "Daring" is escorting her, which seems unlikely.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/ho ... .2/zoom:10

I've had a look for the Tide class tankers with Marine Traffic too, for possible future QE RAS:

RFA Tidespring was last seen yesterday south of the Isle Of Arran and near the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.
RFA Tiderace was last seen in Portland Harbour, Dorset on 30th May 2018.
RFA Tidesurge in Falmouth since April 2018.
RFA Tideforce - South Korea!