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Saturday, June 29, 2013

Control tower lowered on to UK's biggest aircraft carrier


The UK's biggest aircraft carrier has moved a step closer to completion after its 750-tonne control tower was lowered on to the deck.

The aft island of HMS Queen Elizabeth was built in a yard on the River Clyde in Glasgow and sailed on a barge to Rosyth, Fife, last week to join the other parts of the ship.

It took workers in Scotstoun nearly two years to build the section which will serve as the centre of on-board flight operations.

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