A tug and barge service delivers new Aircraft Carrier sections – by Jack Gaston

Barge ‘Osprey Carrier’ leaves Appledore with two major sections for the hull of HMS Queen Elizabeth.

The first major transfer of prefabricated blocks (sections) for the new aircraft carrier, ‘HMS Queen Elizabeth’, was completed on 8 April when the barge ‘Osprey Carrier’ arrived in the Firth of Forth, towed by the tug ‘Vigilant’.

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