HMS Queen Elizabeth

This article is about the British Royal Navy ship name. For the march, see HMS Queen Elizabeth March. For other ships, see Queen Elizabeth (ship).

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

• Dardanelles 1915
• Crete 1941
• Sabang 1944
• Burma 1944–45
• East Indies 1945

See also

• HMS Elizabeth

References

• 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.