An enormous section of the Royal Navy’s second Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier has been loaded onto a barge in Glasgow ready for delivery to Rosyth.
The 8,000 tonne mid hull section called Lower Block 03 (LB03) is larger than an entire Type 45 destroyer. It contains 160 cabins, machinery space, a portion of the aircraft hangar and even a bakery. It was carefully manoeuvred out of the BAE Systems ship build hall where it was constructed and placed onto a…
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