Wednesday, July 23, 2014
HMS Illustrious returned to her Portsmouth home for the last time
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HMS Illustrious returned to her Portsmouth home for the last time yesterday as her 32-year career draws to a close. The helicopter and commando carrier, which has clocked up 898,893 miles on operations around the world, is being withdrawn from service.
The picture shows HMS Illustrious entering Portsmouth Harbour.
[Picture: Chief Petty Officer Airman (Photographer) Nathan Dua, Crown copyright,http://www.blogs.mod.uk/.a/6a00d83505ce1d53ef01a73df29505970d-popup ]
HMS Illustrious returned to her Portsmouth home for the last time yesterday as her 32-year career draws to a close. The helicopter and commando carrier, which has clocked up 898,893 miles on operations around the world, is being withdrawn from service.
The picture shows HMS Illustrious entering Portsmouth Harbour.
[Picture: Chief Petty Officer Airman (Photographer) Nathan Dua, Crown copyright,http://www.blogs.mod.uk/.a/6a00d83505ce1d53ef01a73df29505970d-popup ]
Friday, July 18, 2014
HMS Queen Elizabeth out of the dock.....
HMS Queen Elizabeth out of the dock.....
Britain's biggest ever warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, took to the water for the first time yesterday as she as moved out of dry dock at Rosyth, near Edinburgh, to a neighbouring jetty where work on her will be completed over the next 2 years. Read more here.
The picture shows a flotilla of tugs moving the 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier out of the dock where she was constructed. [Picture: Lieutenant Phil Gamble, Crown copyright]
Britain's biggest ever warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, took to the water for the first time yesterday as she as moved out of dry dock at Rosyth, near Edinburgh, to a neighbouring jetty where work on her will be completed over the next 2 years. Read more here.
The picture shows a flotilla of tugs moving the 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier out of the dock where she was constructed. [Picture: Lieutenant Phil Gamble, Crown copyright]
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