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Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Stern of Royal Navy's new £3billion aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth leaves Portsmouth on its way to Scotland

[HMS Queen Elizabeth's stern]The rear of the Royal Navy's new £3 billion aircraft carrier dwarfed everything around her as she took to the seas today.

A 300ft barge battled 30 knot winds as it carried two sections of HMS Queen Elizabeth’s 1,820 tonne stern out of Portsmouth Naval Base in Hampshire.

They will now make a four day, 500 mile journey to Rosyth, on the Firth of Forth in Scotland, where, along with other parts, they will be put together to make the warship, which is due to be commissioned in 2016.

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