Cammel Lairds ready to ship aircraft carrier sections down River Mersey Bad weather has delayed the departure of two newly-built huge sections of the Royal Navy’s latest aircraft carrier from the Mersey. The two sections weighing 900 tons and 600 tons built at Cammell Laird shipyard, Birkenhead, were due to towed on a barge to Rosyth Naval Dockyard, Scotland, on Thursday, but are now likely to depart on Saturday. The sections are part of the flight deck for the supercarrier HMS Prince of Wales, which is being constructed by shipbuilders around the UK, and then assembled at Rosyth, Firth of Forth. The voyage to Rosyth will probably take about a week with a tug towing the loaded barge at around six knots so finding a suitable lengthy “fair weather window” is a tricky problem. Laird’s still has another year of work ahead on further sections comprising flight deck, hangar and accommodation in its £44m contract for the £6bn, 70,000 gross ton HMS Prince of Wales. There has been much uncertainty on the operational future of this second supercarrier due to Defence cuts and the real possibility it would be moth-balled on completion or sold abroad. However at the NATO summit in Wales last month, the Prime Minister David Cameron announced that [...] liverpoolinnews/cammel-lairds-ready-to-ship-aircraft-carrier-sections-down-river-mersey/
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 12:45:49 +0000
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