HMS Queen Elizabeth by numbers as 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier leaves port
![The Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, at Rosyth Dockyard in Dunfermline](https://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/webimg/legacy_ash_91362356.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&width=640&quality=65&enable=upscale)
![The Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, at Rosyth Dockyard in Dunfermline](/img/placeholder.png)
- The project to build HMS Queen Elizabeth and sister ship HMS Prince of Wales cost more than £6 billion
- The aircraft carrier weighs 65,000 tonnes and has a top speed of 25 knots
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Hide Ad- Its flight deck is 280 metres long and 70 metres wide - enough space for three football pitches
- The ship is the second in the Royal Navy to be named Queen Elizabeth
- The ship will have a crew of around 700, increasing to 1,600 when a full complement of F-35B jets and Crowsnest helicopters are embarked
- There are 364,000 metres of pipes inside the ship
- Both HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales will keep 45 days worth of food in its stores
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Hide Ad- The entire Ship's Company of 700 can be served a meal within 90 minutes, 45 minutes when at action station
- Leaving the Rosyth dock will be among the most difficult manoeuvres in the sea trials with just 50cm between the bottom of the ship and the seabed in the port