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Namesake: Queen Elizabeth I
Operator: Royal Navy
Ordered: 20 May 2008
Builder: BAE Systems Surface Ships
Thales Group
Babcock Marine
Cost: £3.1bn
Laid down: 7 July 2009
Launched: 17 July 2014
Sponsored by: HM The Queen
Christened: 4 July 2014
Commissioned: To be confirmed.
In service: 2020 (planned)
Homeport: HMNB Portsmouth
Identification: Pennant number: R08
Deck code: Q
IMO number: 4907892
ITU callsign: GQLZ
Motto: Semper Eadem ("Always the Same")
Status: Arrived Portsmouth 16/08/2017, sea trials to be continued prior to commissioning
General characteristics
Class and type: Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier
Displacement: 70,600 tonnes (69,500 long tons; 77,800 short tons)
Length:280m (920ft)
Beam: 39m (128ft waterline, 73m (240 ft) overall
Draught: 11m (36ft)
Propulsion: Rolls-Royce’s integrated electric propulsion system, 2 x Rolls-Royce Marine 36MW MT30 gas turbine alternators, 2 x Wartsila 16V38 of 15,000hp each, 2 x Wartsila 12V38 of 12,000hp each
Propellers, 2 x propellers, 2 x shafts, 7m diameter, mass 33 tonnes, nickel aluminium bronze, stepless blade adjustment, individual blade underwater replacement if required
Steering gear, 2 x ship, Rolls-Royce Marine RV2600-3Vane Unit developing a maximum 1845 kNm of torque per unit
Stabilisers – Four per ship (4 x Neptune retractable fins)
Speed: 29knots (54km/h)
Range: 10,000 nautical miles (19,000km)
Capacity: 1,600
Troops: 250
Complement: 679
Sensors and processing systems:
S1850M long range radar
Type 997 Artisan 3D medium range radar
Ultra Electronics Series 2500 Electro Optical System (EOS)
Armament:
3 x Phalanx CIWS
4 x 30mm calibre gun, various Miniguns and GPMGs to counter asymmetric threats.
Aircraft carried:
Planned Carrier Air Wing of up to 40 aircraft
F-35B Lightning II
Chinook
Apache AH64
Merlin HM2 and HC4
Wildcat AH1 and HMA2
Merlin Crowsnest AEW
Aviation facilities:
Hangar below deck
Two aircraft lifts
Ski jump
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