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HMS Prince of Wales (R09) is the second Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier and the Fleet Flagship of the Royal Navy. Prince of Wales is not fitted with catapults and arrestor wires, and is instead designed to operate STOVL aircraft; the ship is currently planned to carry up to 48 F-35B Lightning II stealth multirole fighters and Merlin helicopters for airborne early warning and anti ...
Prince of Wales displaced 36,727 long tons (37,300 t) as built and 43,786 long tons (44,500 t) fully loaded. The ship had an overall length of 745 feet (227.1 m), a beam of 103 feet (31.4 m) and a draught of 29 feet (8.8 m). Her designed metacentric height was 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) at normal load and 8 feet 1 inch (2.46 m) at deep load. [4] [5]
* 8 x 15 m Officer Training Units; * 6 x 15 m Diver Training/Support Boats; * 4 x 15 m Survey/hydrographic Modules; * 3 x 13.8 m Passenger Transfer Boats (PTBs); * 10 x 11 m Standard Workboats; * 3 x 11 m Small Survey Modules — 2018 to 2024: 15 to 23 tonnes: Workboats — [N 17] [86] [1] [87] ALN-139 class Sea Harrier Buccaneer Sea Vixen ...
CVA-01 (possible name HMS Queen Elizabeth) [2] 50 54,500 long tons (55,375 t) 3 x shafts Parsons turbines 6 boilers Cancelled 1966 HMS Duke of Edinburgh (Possibly) [2] Cancelled 1963 HMS Prince of Wales (Possibly) [2] HMS Princess Royal (Possibly) [citation needed]
HMS Illustrious: 2007–2009 HMS Ark Royal: 2009 – 13 December 2010 [7] HMS Albion: 13 December 2010 – 11 October 2011 [8] HMS Bulwark: 11 October 2011 – 1 June 2015 [9] HMS Ocean: 1 June 2015 – 27 March 2018 [10] HMS Albion: 27 March 2018 - 27 January 2021 [11] HMS Queen Elizabeth: 27 January 2021 - 2 December 2024 [12] HMS Prince of Wales
The £3 billion warship left its home base of Portsmouth last month – a year late after suffering a broken propeller shaft in August 2022.
In 2014, the prime minister, David Cameron, announced that Prince of Wales would be brought into service. [148] As of 20 April 2016, construction of Prince of Wales was announced to be 80% complete. [149] The ship was handed over to the Royal Navy on 10 December 2019 and had been set for a full operational capability from 2023. [150] [151] [152]
The 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier sailed on Tuesday instead of the scheduled departure on Monday evening.