HMS Queen Elizabeth
This article is about the British Royal Navy ship name. For the march, see
HMS Queen Elizabeth March
. For other ships, see
Queen Elizabeth (ship)
.
HMS
Queen Elizabeth
could refer to one of three ships named in honour of Elizabeth I of England:
HMS
Queen Elizabeth
(1913)
was the lead ship of the
Queen Elizabeth
-class
battleship
s, launched in 1913 and scrapped in 1948
HMS
Queen Elizabeth
was to have been the first of the 1960s planned
CVA-01
-class aircraft carriers, but the class was never constructed
HMS
Queen Elizabeth
(R08)
is the first ship of the
Queen Elizabeth
-class
aircraft carrier
s, launched in 2014, on sea trials as of June 2017 and commissioned in December 2017
Battle honours
Dardanelles
1915
Crete
1941
Sabang
1944
Burma
1944–45
East Indies
1945
See also
HMS
Elizabeth
References
Colledge, J. J.
; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969].
Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present
(3rd Rev
ed.). London: Chatham Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-86176-281-8
.
OCLC
67375475
.
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