Clyde Workers Start Massive Jigsaw of Constructing Super-Sized Carrier ; It's Piece by Piece to Build Giant Warship

Evening TimesMarch 06, 2010

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BRITAIN'S biggest warship is under construction on the Clyde where giant sections of the hull are being put together piece by piece.

It is the engineering equivalent of painting by numbers but on a huge scale when different parts - made at yards across the UK - will be transported by barges to Rosyth where they will be put together to form a super-sized aircraft carrier: HMS Queen Elizabeth.

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Clyde Workers Start Massive Jigsaw of Constructing Super-Sized Carrier ; It's Piece by Piece to Build Giant Warship

Construction will take years to complete and the newest addition to the defence of the realm has a dedicated team of 200 skilled craftsmen at the shipyard in Govan. Numbers will increase to match the workload.

Heavy-duty units fo...

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