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UK’s newest, most expensive aircraft carrier needs repair
The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) under anchor awaiting low tide after departing Rosyth dockyard, Scotland (UK), for the first time as the ship headed out on sea trials, 26 June 2017. She had been under construction since 2014 at Rosyth. (Photo by Andrew Linnett/MOD, OGL)
LONDON — The British navy’s newest and most expensive aircraft carrier needs repairs after a faulty shaft seal was identified during sea trials.
Officials say the HMS Queen Elizabeth, which cost roughly 3 billion pounds ($4 billion) to build, will be “scheduled for repair” at Portsmouth.
Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said Tuesday the repairs wouldn’t be paid for by taxpayers because contractors who built the ship would be responsible.
A Royal Navy statement says the problem won’t prevent the ship from sailing or interfere with the extensive sea trials program underway.
Queen Elizabeth II earlier this month attended the commissioning ceremony of the carrier, which is named after the monarch.
Antonio Carlos Jr Zamith
December 26, 2017 at 8:37 PM
brand new Royal Navy carriers already on the site. That’s normal for the class Type 45 destroyers are all in the shipyard for manufacturer’s defect that the British taxpayer will pay. Now the defect of the NAe is the responsibility of the manufacturer. If not make quality UK warships as they used to.