HMS Queen Elizabeth

HMS Queen Elizabeth could refer to one of three ships named in honour of Elizabeth I of England:

HMS Queen Elizabeth (1913) was the lead ship of the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, launched in 1913 and scrapped in 1948
HMS Queen Elizabeth was to have been the first of the 1960s planned CVA-01-class aircraft carriers, but the class was never constructed
HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) is the first ship of the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, launched in 2014, on sea trials as of June 2017 and commissioned in December 2017

Battle honours

Dardanelles 1915
Crete 1941
Sabang 1944
Burma 1944–45
East Indies 1945

See also

HMS Elizabeth

References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

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