A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: ‘Following a successful period at sea, it was always planned that HMS Prince of Wales would return to Portsmouth on August 26 in order to restore ready for the next period at sea. ‘It also allows the crew time with families over the bank holiday, ahead of a busy operational autumn period. The spokesman said the five-day period of training allowed the ship and its crew to conduct exercises as part of preparation for the vessel’s first operational deployment planned for 2022. He added: ‘Having successfully completed Basic Operational Sea Training, the ship’s immediate focus is on proving her complex breadth of warfighting capabilities, enabling her to be a world-class command platform from which to lead future task group based operations.
I was always a little disappointed that one of them was not named Ark Royal. One story I read was by naming them Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales it made it more politically difficult to cancel them.
@@davidhouseman4328 Agreed, but were all things equal? Some folk argue that HMS Eagle was in better shape than the Mighty Ark, despite being a year older and her angled flight deck being a late addition. Yet it was Eagle that ended up as the spare parts store.
Harbor masters/captains take control of the ship generally as they know the channel better. "The captain, or master, of a large ship has total command in the high seas. However, when a ship enters or leaves a port, or enters a river or channel, the captain turns over navigation to a local pilot. Because of safety and commercial concerns, state and federal maritime law governs the licensing and regulation of pilots. A docking pilot directs the tugboats that pull a ship from the pier. Once the ship has cleared the pier and is under way in the harbor, the docking pilot leaves the ship and turns navigation over to a harbor pilot. Every ship that enters and leaves a port must have a harbor pilot aboard. Once the ship reaches open water, a small boat picks up the harbor pilot and returns the pilot to port. The captain then resumes full command of the ship."
First of all, I love our Royal Navy. But-----what is the point of an aircraft carrier with no aircraft?? And her sister has a half compliment, the other half provided by the US. We need both to be fully complete and fully staffed. Plus we need a fully competent support fleet of Destroyers, Frigates etc. Hope we don't live to regret this significant underfunding. Boris has gone so far, but not far enough. Let's not use Covid 19 as an excuse.
Any aircraft,HMS Prince of Wales was carrying,would have flown off mid channel to their home station.Not all the Lighting aircraft have been delivered yet.
@@davidknowles3459 As far as I am aware, there were no fixed wing aircraft on HMS Prince of Wales, only Helicopters. I was specifically referring to the lack of F35B's, also on Queen Elizabeth. I know still some to come but not a full complement for either aircraft carrier.
@@michaelpreece79 The basic point of the second is to cover all the times the first is in maintenance, refits etc. Jets to fill one are being built. There's no huge push to get them as any bought now will need upgrading with the F35 still being fine tuned.
@@davidhouseman4328 Thanks David, I was not aware of the upgrading to the F35B's. I guess we can't afford a third carrier to allow two full carrier groups fully equipped whilst one is in for maintenance. Tough to accept we are no longer a 'major' power and we will still have to rely on the relationship with the the USA in any major conflict (even given the current President!!).
Hope to see the UK go nuclear before China. Keep putting in the work to bring your navy back. Hope to see you guys get your F35bs soon to. Need more nations pushing against China, Russia, Iran, etc.
@HMS King George V 1) No need to like your own comment. 2) The UK doesn't need the US or France as they already build reactors in submarines which are harder do to confined spaces. Hope to see it happen. Hope to see more Type 23/26 and 45s, or hopefully AB class. Im just glad our allies are putting money in their military unlike say Germany.
@@ThatCarGuy 1) You keep peddling this nonsense on people with whom you disagree. You have no idea who has liked or disliked a video. No one does. 2) You are right the UK has the capability to build a CVN if it so desired. However we came to the conclusion in the '60s (during the CVA-01 debacle) that there is absolutely zero strategic or tactical advantage to nuclear power in surface ships. 2a) Not sure why we would want to buy AB destroyers when T23 (and even more so the new T26) is a better ASW and T45 is a better Air Defence asset.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: ‘Following a successful period at sea, it was always planned that HMS Prince of Wales would return to Portsmouth on August 26 in order to restore ready for the next period at sea.
‘It also allows the crew time with families over the bank holiday, ahead of a busy operational autumn period.
The spokesman said the five-day period of training allowed the ship and its crew to conduct exercises as part of preparation for the vessel’s first operational deployment planned for 2022.
He added: ‘Having successfully completed Basic Operational Sea Training, the ship’s immediate focus is on proving her complex breadth of warfighting capabilities, enabling her to be a world-class command platform from which to lead future task group based operations.
Something tells me we're going to be glad we've got these ships.
Exactly. Russia and China both rapidly adding to their fleets.
How did the RN ever let themselves get down to zero carriers previously?
@@gendaminoru3195 Because of the dumb morons in the government who kept cutting the budget down to a dangerous level
We need one more with the name HMS Churchill
HMS Bishops Finger 😄
Ark Royal
I was always a little disappointed that one of them was not named Ark Royal. One story I read was by naming them Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales it made it more politically difficult to cancel them.
How’s about HMS Maggie Thatcher?!
HMS Hood
Paint her in dazzle camo. That would be something to see.
I wonder how many liters of paint it would take 🤔
Some of the old WW2 carriers painted in 'dazzle' looked awesome.
its absolutelty awesome to see all ships out
Now we just need 1 more, to give us 3 carriers so that we can have 1 constantly deployed at all times.
Always amazing to see one of the big girl HMS Prince of Wales
God bless the Royal Navy!
Now I realized how beautiful she is.
It must be a bit frustrating knowing your sister ship is having all the fun. I know, I've been there.
You just have to remember you'll have a few extra years at the end when there past it.
@@davidhouseman4328 Unless she is retained just to provide spares for older sister. Not that that ever happened.... Oooooh, wait a minute.... !
@@TheArgieH Could be, but everything being equal you'll keep the younger one.
@@davidhouseman4328 Agreed, but were all things equal? Some folk argue that HMS Eagle was in better shape than the Mighty Ark, despite being a year older and her angled flight deck being a late addition. Yet it was Eagle that ended up as the spare parts store.
Was on top of the spinnaker when this came in
Awesome ship.
❤️❤️❤️👍💪💐
Nice video shipspotting
How is this shitpost
How thoughtful of the designers to put a swim platform off the back of the carrier. :) You Brits should not have been cheap and went with nuke/CATOBAR
Need more CIWS, lots more CIWS
Hot blonde shipfu has came back home
Surely not...?
Beautiful to see thank you for the video. Let's hope Covid Joe does NOT tell the UK Gov to give this ship away.
What a bizarre comment.
@@YorkyOne Indeed. Very bizarre! 😳
Have you been drinking again ?
Back to Texas you go Richard. With the rest of the tRumpanzees.
The US Navy is having NONE of the Royal Navy's aircraft carriers
How long at sea?
3
3 weeks? 3 months? The Dutch captain said 7 months.
@@meertenwelleman6249 Yeah
The real one is there
Dont boried
The navy is from the south only
And this prince is viking
Not gales
From Lyme Regis I have seen this ship on the horizon for days doing nothing but sitting there , costing us millions WHY OH WHY
If she was doing nothing but sitting there, she would be in port.
Basics of the military, when we aren't at war they do less?!
It was probably testing its sensor suites, Lyme bay would be a good, safe place to do it.
Why is a tugboat pulling the aircraft carrier? There's no wake. Dead she break down?
Harbor masters/captains take control of the ship generally as they know the channel better.
"The captain, or master, of a large ship has total command in the high seas. However, when a ship enters or leaves a port, or enters a river or channel, the captain turns over navigation to a local pilot. Because of safety and commercial concerns, state and federal maritime law governs the licensing and regulation of pilots.
A docking pilot directs the tugboats that pull a ship from the pier. Once the ship has cleared the pier and is under way in the harbor, the docking pilot leaves the ship and turns navigation over to a harbor pilot. Every ship that enters and leaves a port must have a harbor pilot aboard. Once the ship reaches open water, a small boat picks up the harbor pilot and returns the pilot to port. The captain then resumes full command of the ship."
First of all, I love our Royal Navy. But-----what is the point of an aircraft carrier with no aircraft?? And her sister has a half compliment, the other half provided by the US. We need both to be fully complete and fully staffed. Plus we need a fully competent support fleet of Destroyers, Frigates etc. Hope we don't live to regret this significant underfunding. Boris has gone so far, but not far enough. Let's not use Covid 19 as an excuse.
Any aircraft,HMS Prince of Wales was carrying,would have flown off mid channel to their home station.Not all the Lighting aircraft have been delivered yet.
@@davidknowles3459 As far as I am aware, there were no fixed wing aircraft on HMS Prince of Wales, only Helicopters. I was specifically referring to the lack of F35B's, also on Queen Elizabeth. I know still some to come but not a full complement for either aircraft carrier.
@@michaelpreece79 More will come.These aircraft carriers weren't built for nothing.
@@michaelpreece79 The basic point of the second is to cover all the times the first is in maintenance, refits etc. Jets to fill one are being built. There's no huge push to get them as any bought now will need upgrading with the F35 still being fine tuned.
@@davidhouseman4328 Thanks David, I was not aware of the upgrading to the F35B's. I guess we can't afford a third carrier to allow two full carrier groups fully equipped whilst one is in for maintenance. Tough to accept we are no longer a 'major' power and we will still have to rely on the relationship with the the USA in any major conflict (even given the current President!!).
Hope to see the UK go nuclear before China. Keep putting in the work to bring your navy back. Hope to see you guys get your F35bs soon to. Need more nations pushing against China, Russia, Iran, etc.
Where and why do we need to 'go nuclear'?
WTF for ????????????? LOL
@HMS King George V 1) No need to like your own comment. 2) The UK doesn't need the US or France as they already build reactors in submarines which are harder do to confined spaces. Hope to see it happen. Hope to see more Type 23/26 and 45s, or hopefully AB class. Im just glad our allies are putting money in their military unlike say Germany.
@@ThatCarGuy Germany has a very strong army and will soon be operating the largest and most modernised Eurofighter fleet.
@@ThatCarGuy 1) You keep peddling this nonsense on people with whom you disagree. You have no idea who has liked or disliked a video. No one does.
2) You are right the UK has the capability to build a CVN if it so desired. However we came to the conclusion in the '60s (during the CVA-01 debacle) that there is absolutely zero strategic or tactical advantage to nuclear power in surface ships.
2a) Not sure why we would want to buy AB destroyers when T23 (and even more so the new T26) is a better ASW and T45 is a better Air Defence asset.
God bless the Royal Navy!