The two largest and most powerful ships ever built for the Royal Navy were seen off South Devon yesterday. The aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales were photographed as they moved along the Lyme Bay and Torbay coastline.
DevonLive reported Neither of the grey warships were showing up on tracking but local ship spotters were out in force with long lenses. The Prince of Wales had departed from Portsmouth while HMS Queen Elizabeth sailed from Mina Sulman in Bahrain.
Photographer Adrian Pearce saw HMS Prince of Wales landing a Merlin helicopter which then took off and headed towards Plymouth. Her sister ship HMS Queen Elizabeth, the older of the two aircraft carriers, is to become the UK's next fleet flagship.
The aircraft carrier Prince of Wales was built in 2019. The Queen Elizabeth-class ships are the Royal Navy's first aircraft carriers to be built since HMS Ark Royal was scrapped in 2010.
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