PICTURES: USS Theodore Roosevelt arrives for five day visit

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The USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier
The ship had to anchor off Stokes Bay in Gosport
It was carrying more than 5,000 crew, including senior Navy officers and aircraft handlers
Hampshire is the ship's first port of call in its round-the-world deployment
The ship weighs in at an impressive 100,000 tonnes
The US aircraft carrier anchored off at Gosport after it was too big to fit in Portsmouth harbour
During the visit senior officers will call on Royal Navy top brass to discuss recent global operations
The visit forms parts of an ongoing partnership between the Royal Navy and US on carrier operations until the first of the new carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth, enters service in 2017.
Watch Richard Jones' report on USS Roosevelt tonight at 6pm