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http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-wo ... en-2056546
Assembly work on the biggest ship ever built for the Royal Navy is nearing completion at Rosyth, in Fife.
New aerial pictures of the HMS Queen Elizabeth have been released by the Aircraft Carrier Alliance.
The images show work well advanced with both "islands"' now in place.
And all that remains to be fitted to the ship are two sponsons - flight deck extensions - and the ramp or "ski-jump"' which give aircraft an extra boost on take-off.
The carriers will be three times larger than Britain's Invincible Class Aircraft Carrier and the second biggestin the world behind America's 90,000-ton Nimitz class.
The first piece of steel was cut in 2009 but HMS Queen Elizabeth will not be finished until 2016 at the earliest, and may not be ready for action until 2020.
The construction of the HMS Prince of Wales will overlap and the current plan is for one of them to be operational while the other is kept in "extended readiness".
When it is finally ready, the Queen Elizabeth will only be able to navigate the Forth Bridge and reach the open sea by waiting for low tide, and even then they will have to retract the radar masts.
See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-e ... e-23327101