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Biggest ever Royal Navy carrier to be named by the Queen

The three billion pound aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth will be named today. Large parts of the ship were built in Portsmouth.

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Largest ever Royal Navy carrier to be named by the Queen

HMS Queen Elizabeth Credit: Royal Navy

The biggest ship ever built for the Royal Navy will be officially named by The Queen today. The three billion pound aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, is being put together in Scotland but large parts of her were built at the BAE Shipyard in Portsmouth.

She'll arrive in the Hampshire city, her home port, in two years.

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