Timelapse: aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth floated for first time

The UK's largest ever warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has been successfully floated out of the dock in which she was assembled.

In an operation that started earlier this week, the dry dock in Rosyth near Edinburgh was flooded for the first time to allow the 65,000 tonne aircraft carrier to float.

It then took three hours on the 17 July to carefully manoeuvre HMS Queen Elizabeth out of the dock with just two metres clearance at either side and then berth her alongside a nearby jetty.

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