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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21. Sight of surrender
The surrender of the German Fleet in WW1 took place onboard the previous HMS Queen Elizabeth in Rosyth, close to where the second and newest HMS Queen Elizabeth was constructed Photo: Topical Press Agency
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