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Monday, June 20, 2011

HMS Illustrious ‘raring to go’ after £40m refit

HMS IllustriousThe captain of Britain’s last remaining aircraft carrier, HMS Illustrious, said his warship is ‘raring to go’ after she came out of a £40m refit in Scotland.

Workers in Rosyth have adapted the 22,000-ton warship into a helicopter carrier following last year’s decision to axe the navy’s Harrier jump jets.

She left Rosyth dockyard yesterday and will conduct sea trials in UK waters before arriving home to Portsmouth in July to rejoin the fleet.

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