Navy’s four smallest ships to venture north while flagship languishes in port
by Ben Mitchell
Feb 05, 2024
3 minutes
Four of the smallest ships in the Royal Navy are preparing to head far north into the Arctic and take part in a major exercise that the fleet’s largest ship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has been forced to pull out of because of a propeller “issue”.
The departure of the fleet flagship from Portsmouth Naval Base at the weekend was cancelled at the last minute after final inspections spotted a problem with
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