The carrier will soon be returning home to Portsmouth after her first operational mission – having departed in May and spent seven months at sea.
In honour of this, we have pulled together a number of facts you might not know about HMS Queen Elizabeth.
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9. This is how much the ships weigh
The Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers each weigh 65,000 tonnes Photo: Matt Cardy
10. Gender-neutral job roles
Hundreds of sailors will be deploying on HMS Queen Elizabeth on her first full mission, in 2021. Photo: Getty Images Photo: Richard Pohle
11. How long do deployments last?
The Queen Elizabeth class ships are designed for deployments typically lasting nine months Photo: Matt Cardy
12. So she is named after the Queen?
Actually the HMS Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth class are both named after the 1913 ship of the same name which got her name from Elizabeth I - so while she shares her name with the current monarch she was not named after her Photo: Chris Jackson