HMS Queen Elizabeth by numbers as 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier leaves port

The numbers behind HMS Queen Elizabeth:
The Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, at Rosyth Dockyard in DunfermlineThe Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, at Rosyth Dockyard in Dunfermline
The Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, at Rosyth Dockyard in Dunfermline

- The project to build HMS Queen Elizabeth and sister ship HMS Prince of Wales cost more than £6 billion

- The aircraft carrier weighs 65,000 tonnes and has a top speed of 25 knots

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- Its flight deck is 280 metres long and 70 metres wide - enough space for three football pitches

- The ship is the second in the Royal Navy to be named Queen Elizabeth

- The ship will have a crew of around 700, increasing to 1,600 when a full complement of F-35B jets and Crowsnest helicopters are embarked

- There are 364,000 metres of pipes inside the ship

- Both HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales will keep 45 days worth of food in its stores

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- The entire Ship's Company of 700 can be served a meal within 90 minutes, 45 minutes when at action station

- Leaving the Rosyth dock will be among the most difficult manoeuvres in the sea trials with just 50cm between the bottom of the ship and the seabed in the port