Aircraft Carrier Project Progresses

Tuesday, 15 July 2014 00:05

Huge hull for HMS Prince of Wales ready for delivery to Rosyth dockyard.

A huge section of the Royal Navy's second Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier has been loaded onto a barge in Glasgow ready for delivery to Rosyth.

The 8,000 tonne mid hull section called Lower Block 03 (LB03) is larger than an entire Type 45 destroyer. It contains 160 cabins, machinery space, a portion of the aircraft hangar and even a bakery.

Over the weekend it was carefully manoeuvred out of the BAE Systems ship build hall where it was constructed and onto a barge alongside on the River Clyde.

The block will next week set sail on a 600 mile voyage to Rosyth, where in September the assembly of HMS Prince Of Wales will begin in the dock that will shortly be vacated by her sister ship, HMS Queen Elizabeth.