HMS Queen Elizabeth could refer to one of three ships named in honour of Elizabeth I of England:
- HMS Queen Elizabeth (1913) was the lead ship of the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, launched in 1913 and scrapped in 1948
- HMS Queen Elizabeth was to have been the first of the 1960s planned CVA-01-class aircraft carriers, but the class was never constructed
- HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) is the first ship of the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, launched in 2014, on sea trials as of June 2017 and commissioned in December 2017
Battle honours
[edit]- Dardanelles 1915
- Crete 1941
- Sabang 1944
- Burma 1944–45
- East Indies 1945
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.