The Diplomat
The flagship of the British Navy, the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, will arrive today in Palma de Mallorca in the final stage of a mission that has lasted seven months and in which, along with the other eight ships that make up its battle group, has worked with about 40 countries, including Spain, as reported yesterday by the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Madrid.
With its 70 meters high and 280 meters long, the HMS Queen Elizabeth -one of the two largest warships built by the Royal Navy-, will later make another stop at the Rota naval base, to which will have to be added two stops of the destroyer HMS Diamond in Alicante and Valencia, a stop of the destroyer HMS Defender in Barcelona and another of the tanker RFA Tidesurge in Valencia, all of them in the next few days.
“I am very pleased to have the British Navy Battle Group back in Spanish ports, following their visit last June,” said British Ambassador Hugh Elliott. “Spain has been the first and last stop on this historic first deployment of the UK’s new carrier battle group,” he added.
The carrier battle group (CSG) includes some of the most technologically advanced vessels in British naval history. “The aim of its first deployment has been to show the UK’s commitment to an open and secure international order, as well as its reliability as an international actor that takes its responsibility for global defense and security seriously,” the Embassy said.
