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LaGrone, Sam (3 February 2021). "Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth Will Drill with Japanese in Pacific During Deployment". USNI News . Retrieved 29 April 2021. On 2 February 2018, Queen Elizabeth sailed from Portsmouth for a second time, for a six-week deployment to undergo the first phases of operational training; initially, the ship was scheduled to head into the Western Approaches to undertake her initial Operational Sea Training (OST) programme. Once complete, Queen Elizabeth was then taken into the North Atlantic for both heavy weather testing and operations to begin helicopter certification, including with Merlin Mk2 and Mk3 and Chinook helicopters. During this deployment, the ship made her first overseas port visit, stopping over in Gibraltar [56] from 9 to 12 February. [57] During this, the ship also began initial amphibious assault trials, with Royal Marines from 42 Commando embarked to simulate an air assault scenario. [58] Queen Elizabeth was also scheduled to undergo a first replenishment at sea from RFA Tidespring; although the actual replenishment had to be abandoned due to bad weather, the rendezvous allowed both ships the opportunity to simulate the scenario in detail. [59] Queen Elizabeth returned to Portsmouth on 27 February 2018, berthing at Princess Royal Jetty. [60] On 2 March 2018 in Portsmouth Harbour, Queen Elizabeth successfully tested her port side Marine Evacuation System (MES), a series of bright orange inflatable escape chutes and rafts. [61]

Instead of sweeping upwards at about a 20-degree-angle from the ship into the sky, the warplane drops straight down off the end of the ramp and out of sight. Another giant piece of the carrier slots into place". Navy News. Archived from the original on 12 May 2012. Allison, George (26 February 2018). "42 Commando launch 'assault' from aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth". UK Defence Journal. Archived from the original on 28 February 2018 . Retrieved 27 February 2018. Commanding the carrier – a brief history of HMS Queen Elizabeth's captains". Navy Lookout. 21 January 2020 . Retrieved 4 March 2021. New aircraft carrier arrives in home port". BBC News. 16 August 2017. Archived from the original on 16 August 2017 . Retrieved 16 August 2017.Navy's smallest ship paves way for maiden voyage of its largest". Royal Navy. 2 September 2016. Archived from the original on 5 September 2016 . Retrieved 2 September 2016. HMS Queen Elizabeth: Covid outbreak on Navy flagship". BBC News. 14 July 2021 . Retrieved 31 July 2021.

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HMS Queen Elizabeth is the lead ship of the Queen Elizabeth class of aircraft carriers and the Fleet Flagship of the Royal Navy. Capable of carrying 60 aircraft including fixed wing, rotary wing and autonomous vehicles, [20] she is named in honour of the first HMS Queen Elizabeth, a World War I era super-dreadnought, which in turn was named after Queen Elizabeth I. The carrier Queen Elizabeth carries her namesake ship's honours, as well as her Tudor rose-adorned crest and motto. [4]

During the transit north, she was to undertake an amphibious assault exercise off the coast of South Carolina using its Merlin Mk4 helicopters and Royal Marines of 42 Commando. However, due to the effects of Hurricane Florence, this exercise was cancelled and the group instead sailed south; Monmouth headed to waters off The Bahamas, which acted as a windbreak, while Queen Elizabeth skirted around the south of the hurricane zone. The group eventually arrived at Norfolk on 17 September. During the period alongside at Norfolk, Queen Elizabeth embarked a further 200 personnel of the F-35B Integrated Test Force, to undertake the testing and analysis of the two F-35B aircraft to be used during the initial set of flying trials. [73]

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