HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales are united for first time

HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales are united for first time

HMS Queen Elizabeth enters Portsmouth Harbour today (left) to dock alongside sister carrier HMS Prince of Wales (right)

Sailors were welcomed home today as the Royal Navy’s two giant aircraft carriers worth £3billion each docked together, stern to bow, for the first time at their home base of Portsmouth.

The 65,000-tonne warship HMS Queen Elizabeth has arrived at the Hampshire naval base three weeks before Christmas after a three-month deployment to the US for test flights of her F-35B Lightning jets.

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