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Queen Elizabeth II Visits Self-Named Carrier


Sat 22 May 2021 | 09:32 PM
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Queen Elizabeth II visited on Saturday self-named aircraft carrier before its first mission to the Far East.

The enormous carrier will conduct a 28-week operation and it will be accompanied by six Royal Navy ships, a submarine, 14 naval helicopters and a company of Royal Marines.

It will sail from Portsmouth Naval Base this evening. The aircraft carrier will have various stops in India, and Singapore.

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The 95-year-old monarch selected the name of the military ship last year with her late husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.

The royal services of the Queen's visit attended by the aircraft carrier's commanding officer  Captain Angus Essenhigh and commander of the U.K. Carrier Strike Group Stephen Moorhouse.