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  2. List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    Ship Aircraft Displacement Propulsion Service Laid down Commissioned Fate HMS Hermes (95) 20 13,000 long tons (13,209 t) 6 Yarrow small-tube boilers, 2 shafts, Parsons geared turbines: max. speed 25 kn

  3. HMS Prince of Wales (R09) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia

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    HMS Queen Elizabeth, July 2014. The Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy consists of two vessels. The lead ship of her class, HMS Queen Elizabeth, was named on 4 July 2014 [15] in honour of Elizabeth I [16] and was commissioned on 7 December 2017. [2]

  5. List of active Royal Navy ships - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Navy's principal overseas base is HMS Jufair in Bahrain. [9] A general-purpose frigate and vessels belonging to the navy's 9th Mine Counter-Measures Squadron are forward-deployed there. Two fast patrol boats, together with a forward-deployed River-class offshore patrol vessel , normally form part of the Gibraltar Squadron and are ...

  6. List of longest naval ships - Wikipedia

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    Aircraft carrier: 239.80 m (786 ft 9 in) 27,859: 2 sunk, 1 scrapped 1948. Converted from 3 battlecruisers ... Measures are taken from the largest ship of the class.

  7. List of carrier-based aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Sqn. Cdr. E. H. Dunning makes the first landing of an aircraft on a moving ship, a Sopwith Pup on HMS Furious, August 2, 1917. This List of carrier-based aircraft covers fixed-wing aircraft designed for aircraft carrier flight deck operation and excludes aircraft intended for use from seaplane tenders, submarines and dirigibles. Helicopters ...

  8. HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) - Wikipedia

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    HMS Queen Elizabeth is the lead ship of the Queen Elizabeth class of aircraft carriers.Capable of carrying 60 aircraft including fixed wing, rotary wing and autonomous vehicles, [20] she is named in honour of the first HMS Queen Elizabeth, a World War I era super-dreadnought, which in turn was named after Queen Elizabeth I.

  9. Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Navy has two Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers.Each carrier cost £3.2 billion and have a full load displacement of an estimated 80,600 tonnes (79,300 long tons; 88,800 short tons). [ 93 ] Both are intended to operate the STOVL variant of the F-35 Lightning II .