The Hebburn yard has been working on a 3,000-tonne section of the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier which will soon be taken up to Rosyth in Fife where the ship is being assembled.
A&P won a £55m order to that ship and the smaller HMS Prince of Wales, which brought shipbuilding back to the river where the last carrier, HMS Ark Royal, was built 30 years ago. Among the workforce are some of the same men who helped build the Ark Royal in the late 1970s.
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Huge carrier block arrives in Rosyth
The largest section of the Navy's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth yet completed has safely arrived in Rosyth after being towed around Scotland. This 8,000-tonne segment – Lower Block 03 to give it its official title – of the ship was towed 600 miles around the Scottish coast from one great artery, the Clyde, to another, the Forth, during a five-day operation. It safely arrived early on Saturday evening. It took shipwrights at BAE Systems’ Govan yard two years to complete the section, which is more than 20 metres (65ft) high, 60 metres (196ft) long and 40 metres (131ft) wide. In addition to machinery spaces, it contains cabins for more than 150 members of the ship’s company and part of the vast hangar.
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