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<ul class="summary-list"><li>In November 1941, a German U-boat sank <keyword id="13066527" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hms-ark-royal" source="Orion">HMS Ark Royal</keyword>, a British <keyword id="11898296" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="aircraft-carrier" source="Orion">aircraft carrier</keyword>.</li><li>Ark Royal had been a thorn in the side of the German navy during the early years of <keyword id="11938566" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="world-war-ii" source="Orion">World War II</keyword>.</li></ul><p>In December, as the British <keyword id="12018460" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="royal-navy" source="Orion">Royal Navy</keyword> destroyer Dragon sailed through the Mediterranean, its crew <a href="https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2021/december/01/211201-hms-dragon-ark-royal" target="_top">paused</a> for a moment of silence to pay tribute to HMS Ark Royal, a British aircraft carrier sunk by a German U-boat during World War II.</p><p>The ceremony, done a month after the 80th anniversary of Ark Royal's sinking on November 14, 1941, included Dragon's commanding officer, Cmdr. George Storton, casting a wreath into the water to remember the carrier, which is respected as one of the Royal Navy's most legendary ships.</p><p>Despite being in service for just over two years, Ark Royal — named for the flagship of the fleet that defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588 — played a pivotal role in some of the most important actions in the early years of the war.</p><h2><strong>A modern design</strong></h2><div type="image" title="British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal" height="1249" width="2000" msid="89232549" hostid="261"></div><p>Laid down in September 1935, launched in April 1937, and commissioned in December 1938, HMS Ark Royal represented a modern approach to carrier design at the time.</p><p>It was Britain's first purpose-built fleet carrier. Apart from HMS Hermes, which had just about half the displacement of Ark Royal, the Royal Navy's previous carriers had all been converted from other vessels.</p><p>It was the first carrier in which the hangars and flight deck were an integral part of the ship's hull — rather than added onto the hull after its construction — and the flight deck was equipped with catapults and arresting cables to launch and recover aircraft.</p><p>Ark Royal was armed with 16 4.5-inch dual-purpose guns in eight double turrets (four on each side), six eight-barreled "pom-pom" guns, and eight four-barreled .50-caliber machine guns.</p><p>The carrier was designed to carry up to 70 aircraft, but during its construction the biplanes in use on carriers began being replaced by larger, heavier aircraft. By the time World War II started, Ark Royal's air wing numbered between 50 and 60 planes.</p><h2>Early action</h2><div type="image" title="HMS Ark Royal under bomb attack at Battle of Cape Spartivento" height="549" width="800" msid="89232550" hostid="261"></div><p>Ark Royal's first task during the war was to hunt for German U-boats in the Atlantic as part of "hunter-killer" groups.</p><p>On September 14, 1939, the German U-boat U-39 unsuccessfully attacked the carrier and was then pounced on by the destroyers accompanying Ark Royal. It became the first U-boat kill of the war.</p><p>After an air attack a few weeks later, the Germans triumphantly claimed to have sunk Ark Royal — the first of many times the Germans would falsely claim to have sunk the carrier.</p><p>Ark Royal was also involved in the hunt for the imposing German "pocket battleship" Admiral <keyword id="13066528" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="graf-spee" source="Orion">Graf Spee</keyword> in December 1939. After cornering Graf Spee in Montevideo, Uruguay, the British <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/history/admiral-graf-spee-battleship-sinking/" target="_top">spread a rumor</a> that the carrier was on the scene. It was still days away, but the German captain was convinced the British had a superior force and scuttled Graf Spee, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/british-navy-sinks-german-ship-graf-spee-in-first-naval-battle-of-wwii-2017-12" target="_top">giving the British a much-needed victory</a>.</p><p>In spring 1940, the carrier helped support the Norway campaign, which failed to stop the German invasion there. That summer, Ark Royal deployed to the Mediterranean as part of Force H, and its air wing joined the <a href="https://www.historynet.com/operation-catapult-naval-destruction-at-mers-el-kebir.htm" target="_top">attack on the French warships at Mers-el-Kébir</a> to prevent their capture by the Axis.</p><p>The carrier proved essential protecting supply convoys to Malta. It also participated in the <a href="https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/operation-menace.html" target="_top">failed attack</a> on Vichy-held Dakar, Senegal, and fought in the inconclusive Battle of Cape Spartivento, where it was attacked by Italian aircraft.</p><h2>Hunt for <keyword id="12532574" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="bismarck" source="Orion">Bismarck</keyword></h2><div type="image" title="Blackburn Skua fighter-bombers on HMS Ark Royal" height="559" width="840" msid="89232551" hostid="261"></div><p>Ark Royal's best-known action occurred in the Atlantic in mid-1941, when it helped <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hunt-for-battleship-bismarck-proved-uboats-were-nazis-best-weapon-2021-5" target="_top">hunt down and sink the fearsome German battleship Bismarck</a>.</p><p>As Bismarck and the cruiser Prinz Eugen set sail for a commerce-raiding mission in May 1941, the Royal Navy battlecruiser Hood and battleship Prince of Wales attempted to intercept them at the Denmark Strait.</p><p>The encounter was a disaster for the British, who lost Hood, then the pride of the Royal Navy, and all but three of its 1,418-man crew. Prince of Wales was also heavily damaged.</p><p>Shocked and enraged at Hood's loss, Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered all of the Royal Navy's capital ships in the area to hunt down the Bismarck.</p><div type="image" title="British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal with Swordfish" height="1322" width="2000" msid="89232552" hostid="261"></div><p>Ark Royal and the other ships of Force H steamed north from Gibraltar and found Bismarck as it was sailing to France on May 26. Ark Royal quickly launched 15 Swordfish torpedo-bombers carrying new torpedoes with magnetic detonators.</p><p>After mistaking the British cruiser Sheffield for Bismarck and attacking it — fortunately the magnetic detonators failed — the Swordfish returned and rearmed with torpedoes that had more reliable contact detonators. They took off again and attacked Bismarck just before sunset.</p><p>Three torpedoes hit Bismarck. Two struck amidships and caused minor damage while one damaged the rudder, forcing Bismarck into a continuous turn.</p><p>With Bismarck unable to get away, British warships arrived the next morning and pummeled the battleship relentlessly. The Germans attempted to scuttle it, and a British heavy cruiser finished it off with torpedoes. Only 115 of Bismarck's 2,221-man crew survived.</p><h2>Sinking</h2><div type="image" title="British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinking" height="1527" width="2000" msid="89232553" hostid="261"></div><p>Ark Royal repeatedly embarrassed the Germans by disproving their claims about sinking the carrier. But in November 1941, its luck finally ran out.</p><p>In the afternoon on November 13, as Ark Royal returned to Gibraltar from a convoy mission to Malta, the German submarine U-81 successfully attacked the carrier. A single torpedo struck its starboard side, ripping a 130-foot-by-30-foot hole well below the waterline.</p><p>Within 20 minutes, the ship had listed 18 degrees. Mindful of how quickly the carriers <a href="https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/32.html" target="_top">Courageous</a> and <a href="https://historyofyesterday.com/the-sinking-of-the-hms-glorious-ec522487d200" target="_top">Glorious</a> had sunk and the heavy losses — 518 and 1,207 men, respectively — Ark Royal's commanding officer, Capt. Loben Maund, ordered the crew to abandon ship.</p><div type="image" title="British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal crew evacuates" height="1358" width="2000" msid="89232554" hostid="261"></div><p>Most of the crew boarded the destroyers escorting Ark Royal, while damage-control teams made an hours-long effort to save the carrier.</p><p>Their work, and an attempt to tow the carrier to Gibraltar, ultimately proved fruitless. Just after 6 a.m. on November 14, the carrier capsized and broke in two before sinking.</p><p>Amazingly, only one of Ark Royal's 1,749 crewmen, Able Seaman Edward Mitchell, was killed.</p><p>In 2002, nearly 61 years after the ship sank, divers hired by <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2585887.stm" target="_top">the BBC</a> found the wreck of Ark Royal under 3,500 feet of water some 30 miles east of Gibraltar.</p>

The British navy still celebrates a famous World War II aircraft carrier that gave Hitler fits

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">Captain Jerry Kyd on the flight deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul><li><strong>Military drones will fly from HMS Queen Elizabeth, according to Captain Jerry Kyd.</strong></li><li><strong>He said the monster ship is "evolvable" and well placed to take advantage of new technology.</strong></li></ul><p><br />Britain's newest aircraft carrier will soon be home to military drones, its commanding officer has told Business Insider.</p><p>Captain Jerry Kyd, the Royal Navy officer in charge of HMS Queen Elizabeth, described naval drone warfare as an "absolute inevitability" for his ship, and the British armed forces as a whole "in the near future."</p><p>In an interview in the aircraft hangar of the new £3.5 billion ($4.6 billion) warship, Kyd described the Queen Elizabeth as an "evolvable" platform, which could easily accommodate drones, and that the Royal Navy is "looking very closely" at adopting the technology.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Getty Images</span></p><p class="caption">HMS Queen Elizabeth, seen returning to Portsmouth after sea trials.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>He told Business Insider: "What this ship is, is a platform. And she's big, she's evolvable, and absolutely we're looking very closely at unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and drone technology.</p><p>"It's an absolute inevitability that they're going to be embarked on this ship in the near future.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Reuters</span></p><p class="caption">A Northrop Grumman X-47B combat drone on the flight deck of America's USS George Bush carrier.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>"The Americans are well down the road of operating UAVs from their aircraft carriers - we operate UAVs in the Royal Naval fleet already.</p><p>"So I think: Look at the size and scale of this ship, and it doesn't take much imagination to work out that she'll be used in that area too."</p><p>Kyd spoke to Business Insider two days before HMS Queen Elizabeth <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/ap-queen-elizabeth-commissions-aircraft-carrier-with-her-name-2017-12">was formally commissioned into the Royal Navy by Queen Elizabeth II in a grand ceremony</a>.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Business Insider/David Ibekwe</span></p><p class="caption">Kyd speaks to Business Insider from the hangar of HMS Queen Elizabeth.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>He referenced the close co-operation between the US Navy and the Royal Navy, which he said would increase with the return of British carrier capability (the Royal Navy has been without a carrier since HMS Ark Royal was decommissioned in 2011).</p><p>Kyd said: "But I think this ship ushers in an era of even closer co-operation with the United States, and indeed we're looking forward to hosting US Marine Corps lightning jet fighters on here in due course."</p><p>It raises the prospect that the Queen Elizabeth could host US planes before British ones are in place.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-hong-kong-skyscrapers-have-holes-feng-shui-2017-3">Here's why some Hong Kong skyscrapers have gaping holes</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

It's an 'absolute inevitability' that military drones will fly from HMS Queen Elizabeth, according to its commanding officer

<p><strong><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></strong></p><ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>High winds and waves from Hurricane Florence buffered and delayed Britain's largest warship on its journey up the US east coast to train with F35 jets for the first time.</strong></li><li><strong>It reached Mayport, Florida, on September 5, before making the journey up the east coast to Naval Station Norfolk, arriving late on Monday due to storm diversions.</strong></li><li><strong>The aircraft carrier is 280 meters long and cost $4.5 billion to make - it's final destination is&#xa0;Naval Air Station Patuxent River in&#xa0;Maryland.</strong></li><li><strong><span>The trip to the US is significant because it will mark the first fighter jet landing on a British aircraft carrier in eight years.</span></strong></li></ul><p><span>HMS Queen Elizabeth, Britain's largest warship arrived in Norfolk, Virginia, on Monday - and on its way it battled through winds and five meter waves caused by Hurricane Florence.</span></p><p><span>The British Royal Navy's&#xa0;<a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-mind-bending-specifications-hms-queen-elizabeth-2017-6">£3.5 billion ($4.5 billion) aircraft carrier</a>&#xa0;had left the&#xa0;<a href="https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2018/august/18/180813-hms-queen-elizabeth-sets-off-for-f-35b-fighter-jet-trials">UK for America on August 18</a>, to start September training with F-35B jets based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, the&#xa0;<a href="https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2018/august/18/180813-hms-queen-elizabeth-sets-off-for-f-35b-fighter-jet-trials">Royal Navy wrote on its official website</a>.</span></p><p><span>The stop in Norfolk, the second after a pit-stop in Florida on September 5, is the <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/hms-queen-elizabeth-headed-to-america-for-f35-jet-tests-2018-8">aircraft carrier's last before it goes to Maryland for F35B jet training.</a>&#xa0;</span></p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><span>But the ship's arrival in Norfolk was delayed by Hurricane Florence, <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/hurricane-florence-north-carolina-before-and-after-photos-2018-9">which devastated much of the North and South Carolina coastlines from Friday until Tuesday.</a></span><p><span><a href="https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2018/september/17/180917-qnlz-arrives-in-norfolk">The Royal Navy said</a> the crew were forced to take evasive action and "escaped the clutches of the Hurricane."</span></p><p><span>They said HMS Queen Elizabeth passed to the south of the Hurricane's eye but still met four meter swells, five meter waves, and winds of 46 mph.&#xa0; &#xa0;</span></p><p><span>The aircraft carrier arrived at Naval Station Norfolk a little behind schedule on Monday morning, whereupon the ship tweeted: "When a Queen met a President," as it passed the <a href="https://www.navy.mil/local/cvn72/">USS</a></span><a href="https://www.navy.mil/local/cvn72/"><span>&#xa0;Abraham Lincoln.</span></a></p><p><span>The Lincoln is the joint second longest aircraft carrier in the world at 333 meters long, dwarfing Britain's newest aircraft carrier by 53 meters.&#xa0;</span></p><p><span>You can see the Lincoln in the background of the tweet below:</span></p><p>Unlike its US counterparts, which have flat flight decks, HMS Queen Elizabeth has a "ski jump" ramp at one end, which will give the planes a little extra height when taking off.</p><p>Here's a video of F-35s practicing on a ground-based replica of the ski jump:</p><p><span>This deployment to the US is significant because it will mark the first fighter jet landing on a British aircraft carrier in eight years, since the decommissioning of HMS Ark Royal.</span></p><p>The F-35B jets will be flown from N<span>aval Air Station Patuxent River</span>&#xa0;by four pilots from the Integrated Test Force, a unit that includes British and American pilots.<span></span></p><p>Britain's Royal Air Force has its own F-35B jets, the first of which arrived in the <keyword id="6354868" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="UK">UK</keyword> earlier this year and will eventually fly from the carrier. The pilots will use US planes as well. </p><p><span>No official date has been given for the first F-35B landing on the ship, but it is expected in late September,&#xa0;<a href="https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/hms-queen-elizabeth-arrives-in-the-united-states/">the UK Defence Journal wrote on Wednesday.</a></span></p><div></div><div></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/video-british-airways-13-million-flight-simulator-2018-8">British Airways has a $13 million flight simulator that taught us how to take off, fly, and land an airplane</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

Britain's biggest warship had to deal with Hurricane Florence while training with F-35 jets for the first time

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>WJXT News/Youtube</span></p><p class="caption">HMS Queen Elizabeth arrives in Florida. September 5, 2018.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>Britain's largest aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, arrived in the US this week for training.</strong></li><li><strong>While on shore leave in Florida six sailors were arrested and detained over drunk and disorderly behavior, local <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> reports said.</strong></li><li><strong>One of them was stunned by a Taser when he refused to put his hands behind his back, the local WJAX-TV reported.</strong></li><li><strong>The warship is in the US to carry out F-35 trials with British and American pilots.</strong></li></ul><p>Six sailors from HMS Queen Elizabeth, Britain's largest and most powerful aircraft carrier, were reportedly arrested and taken into custody over drunk and disorderly behavior in Jacksonville, Florida, this week.</p><p>The sailors, who were on shore leave, were arrested after locals found them fighting and and urinating in public, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45463703">the BBC reported</a>.</p><p>The incident took place on late Wednesday night into early Thursday morning, <a href="https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/police-six-british-sailors-taken-into-custody-on-various-charges/829756365">according to Jacksonville's local WJAX-TV station</a>.</p><p>Most of them were taken into custody on drunk and disorderly charges, <a href="http://www.jacksonville.com/news/20180907/beach-bars-restaurants-in-northeast-florida-scramble-to-handle-british-sailors">The Florida Times-Union reported</a>.</p><p>Three of them were also charged with resisting arrest. One pushed and pulled an officer, one was actively fighting and refused to stop, and another refused to put his hands behind his back and was ultimately stunned by a Taser, according to WJAX-TV.</p><p>The group were held overnight before being released back onboard the warship on Thursday morning, <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7209061/drunk-royal-navy-sailors-hms-queen-elizabeth-tasered-us-police/">The Sun reported</a>.</p><p>HMS Queen Elizabeth <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/hms-queen-elizabeth-in-us-for-f-35-trials-2018-9">arrived in the US this week</a> after leaving the UK on August 18. It is on its way to carry out F-35 trials at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland with US and British pilots later this month.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>WJXT News/Youtube</span></p><p class="caption">The HMS Queen Elizabeth passes by the Florida coast, where it is stopping to refuel before sailing north to Maryland. September 5, 2018.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>The British navy acknowledged the incident but declined to provide further comment.</p><p>A spokesperson for the Royal Navy told Business Insider in a statement:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">"We can confirm that a number of naval personnel are assisting US police with their enquiries - it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">"The Naval Service places great importance on maintaining the highest possible standards of behaviour from its personnel at all times."</p><p>Sergeant Larry Smith of the Jacksonville Beach Police Department also confirmed that all the arrests were related to alcohol, but that they were "a case of good people making bad decisions."</p><p>Smith told the Sun:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">"Our officers went down to the ship to speak to their commanders, and while they were still out on the town on Thursday night, there were no more problems from the sailors.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">"It was a case of good people making bad decisions, they got drunk and they fought among themselves.</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">"It happens. They seem to beat the mess out of each other and knock their teeth out, but once they pick up their teeth off the ground they hug and then are best friends again."</p><p>HMS Queen Elizabeth is the <a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/hms-queen-elizabeth-what-life-is-like-for-crew-british-warship-2017-8">largest and most powerful aircraft carrier in British history</a>. It took eight years to build and cost the Royal Navy £3.5 billion ($4.6 billion).</p><p>It is home to 900 people - 700 Royal Navy members and 200 industry personnel.</p><p>The deployment to the US is significant because it will mark the first fighter jet landing on a British aircraft carrier in eight years, since the decommissioning of HMS Ark Royal.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/yifang-mudflip-taiwan-bubble-tea-brand-opens-in-london-2018-8">This Taiwanese tea is so popular in London that it's only sold twice a day and is limited to 1 per person</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

6 sailors from Britain's largest warship reportedly arrested in Florida on drunk and disorderly behavior

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>The Royal Navy's largest ship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, reached the US this week after leaving the <keyword id="6354868" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="UK">UK</keyword> on August 18.</strong></li><li><strong>It's on its way to carry out F-35 jet&#xa0;</strong><strong>trials&#xa0;at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in&#xa0;Maryland with US and British pilots later.</strong></li><li><strong>It reached the mainland US at Mayport, Florida, before making the final journey up the east coast.</strong></li><li><strong>The aircraft carrier is 280 meters long and cost $4.5 billion to make.&#xa0;</strong></li><li><strong><span>The trip is significant because it will mark the first fighter jet landing on a British aircraft carrier in eight years.</span></strong></li></ul><p>HMS Queen Elizabeth, Britain's largest warship, reached Florida's Mayport naval station on Wednesday ahead of F-35 fighter jet trials later this month.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/HMSQnlz/status/1037376570103681025">The news was posted on their official Twitter page</a> as they reached the US coast. The purpose of the mission is to introduce the carrier to the F-35B fighters which will be its core firepower once fully operational.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>Another Royal Navy ship joined the Queen Elizabeth in Florida, the Type 23 frigate HMS Monmouth.</p><p>The Monmouth will be an escort during the F-35B trials and left the UK six days after HMS Queen Elizabeth on August 23,&#xa0;<a href="https://www.forces.net/news/hms-queen-elizabeth-arrives-united-states">UK military publication&#xa0;</a><a href="https://www.forces.net/news/hms-queen-elizabeth-arrives-united-states">Forces Network said</a>.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p><a href="http://www.jacksonville.com/">The Florida Times-Union's</a>&#xa0;military reporter, Joe Daraskevich, posted a video on Wednesday on his Twitter showing just HMS Queen Elizabeth (280m long) next to the slightly smaller USS Iwo Jima (257m):</p><p>Despite it being the biggest military ship in Mayport, HMS Queen Elizabeth is still topped by the largest US Navy carriers. USS Gerald R. Ford and USS George H.W. Bush are 337m and 332m long respectively.</p><p>Unlike its US counterparts, which have flat flight decks, HMS Queen Elizabeth has a "ski jump" ramp at one end, which will give the planes a little extra height when taking off.</p><p>Here's a video of F-35s practicing on a ground-based replica of the ski jump:</p><p><a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/hms-queen-elizabeth-headed-to-america-for-f35-jet-tests-2018-8">The Queen Elizabeth left Portsmouth, UK, for America on August 18,</a>&#xa0;for the 11-week training trip. During the mission the Queen Elizabeth will host F-35s from the US Marine Corps.</p><p>Britain's Royal Air Force has its own F-35s, the first of which arrived in the UK earlier this year and will eventually fly from the carrier.</p><p><a href="https://www.forces.net/news/hms-queen-elizabeth-arrives-united-states">Forces Network said</a>&#xa0;HMS Queen Elizabeth stopped at Florida Mayport naval base to re-supply, before sailing the last stretch to <span>Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland.</span></p><p><span>No official date has been given for the first F-35B landing on the ship, but it is expected in late September, <a href="https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/hms-queen-elizabeth-arrives-in-the-united-states/">the UK Defence Journal wrote on Wednesday.</a></span></p><p><span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx5C5EyJtFU">Local TV station WJXT News said</a> the ship would be in Mayport for a couple of days before heading north to Maryland.&#xa0;</span>That base is on the Chesapeake Bay - around 62 miles south of Washington, D.C.</p><p>Here's the Twitter post from their arrival in Mayport:</p><p>As it was arriving the band played a rendition of the British national anthem "God Save the Queen."</p><p><span>The deployment to the US is significant because it will mark the first fighter jet landing on a British aircraft carrier in eight years, since the decommissioning of HMS Ark Royal.</span></p><p>The F-35B jets will be flown from N<span>aval Air Station Patuxent River</span>&#xa0;by four pilots from the Integrated Test Force, a unit that includes British and American pilots.<span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2018/september/06/180906-hms-queen-elizabeth-in-mayport">In a statement</a>, HMS Queen Elizabeth's captain, Jerry Kyd, said: "<span>Crossing a major ocean with 1.500 sailors, aircrew and Marines embarked and the anticipation of the first F-35B Lightning landing on the deck in September is very exciting for us all...&#xa0;this deployment demonstrates the astonishing collaborative effort that will enable the new F-35B jets to fly routinely from our Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers."</span></p><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-foldable-phone-galaxy-x-f-winner-2018-9">Everything we know about Samsung's foldable phone</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div>

Britain's largest and most powerful warship has arrived in the US to train with F-35 jets for the first time

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