errm....
the name of the very expensive hunk of soon to be sunk ironmongery is HMS Queen Elizabeth. Not The Queen Elizabeth. Better yet, the name 'Queen Elizabeth' is not a lucky one in the RN. Only three RN ships have been proposed with the name. One spent a lot of time sitting damaged in Alexandria harbour after being mined by Italian naval commando (they attached a large explosive to the ship and messed it up, but good) and was never up to scratch afterwards. (The RN insists that she never actually sunk, she just took on a lot of water and had a really big hole in the side and couldn't move. For a year and a half. Draw your own conclusions.) One was never built. And this is the third.
Worse, the other QUEEN ELIZABETH class carrier is Prince of Wales. The last RN ship with that name went off to fight Bismarck in May of 1941 with civilian workmen still aboard trying to finish things up. After Hood blew up and Prinz Eugen and Bismarck slapped her around a little, PoW bailed. A little later she was assigned to Force Z. On 10 Dec 1941 she was sunk by Japanese Army torpedo bombers out of Vietnam. Allegedly there was damage to her electrical systems, which knocked out the 5.25 inch DP guns and left her essentially defenceless. Said fault appears to have been caused indirectly by a hit from Prinz Eugen, back in May and wasn't quite fixed properly.
Perhaps it might be a good idea to stay as far away from these ships as possible before the inevitable disaster. Having Win for Warships aboard is merely the icing on the cake.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
