Aircraft Carrier (HMS Queen Elizabeth & HMS Prince of Wales)

Déjà une petite anecdote pour les conversations :
- La reine Elizabeth a baptisé en brisant sur la coque une bouteille de whisky -au lieu de l'habituel champagne...
- Le single malt écossais choisi pour baptiser le navire-amiral provient d'une distillerie ouverte en 1777 sur l'île d'Islay.

Il y a le choix : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islay_whisky

Mais quand même !.. Elle a cassé une bouteille pleine sur la coque...    

  

Qui as dit qu'elle ne cassait rien????   
elle est remplacée par un bras mécanique (voir vidéo)



Laquelle des ces bouteilles a servi pour l'évenement???

L O Réponse BOWMORE  Surf
Whisky Information
Following careful consideration, a decision has been made to use whisky from the Bowmore Distillery, provided by the Worshipful Company of Distillers.
To facilitate a charitable link, the Worshipful Company of Distillers was chosen as they have selected to support the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity this year. The Master is a retired RN officer who has supported Royal Events in the past.
Bowmore Distillery has stood on the shores of Loch Indaal on the Isle of Islay since 1779; Bowmore was the first whisky distillery the Queen visited in an official capacity, on 9 August 1980.
The distillery will provide a bottle of their ‘Bowmore Surf’, to the Worshipful Company for the Naming Ceremony. This single malt takes inspiration from the sea; the sea spray saturates the peaty soil and a sea tang finds its way into the whisky which is a fitting tribute to the sea that shapes it.
Importantly these are important links to the Queen and sea, which serve to complement the Naming of HMS Queen Elizabeth.


Cheers!!!!!!!!

Salut    

Ref: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/aircraft-carrier-to-be-christened-with-islay-malt-whisky

HMS Queen Elizabeth - The Future of the Royal Navy  :

Tu est certain pour la bouteille ???

you are sure to bottle name ??????

• L O D'après l'article repris en référence il s'agit bien du BOWMORE Surf Whisky voici un assortiment de bouteilles  --   les différentes couleurs indique l'age du whisky ?
  

Salut   

Très beau reportage sur le porte-avions/hélicoptères Queen Elisabeth.

Pour les Anglais un vaisseau est féminin.  She is beautiful  
Cela exprime bien les sentiments qu'ils ont envers elle.

Hms Queen Elizabeth move from dock to berth (17.07.2014)  :

HMS Queen Elizabeth afloat at Rosyth  :

Hms Queen Elizabeth was moved out of dock (17.07.2014) :

Britain’s biggest ever warship HMS Queen Elizabeth took to the water for the first time today as she was moved out of dry dock.

With just two metres to spare at either side of the 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier, a flotilla of tugs inched the ship from the dock where she was constructed at Rosyth, near Edinburgh, to a neighbouring jetty where she’ll be completed over the next two years.

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Pour voir les autres photos de la sortie du dock du HMS Queen Elizabeth, cliquer sur :

--->  facebook.com/royalnavy

 


images virtuel

An interesting graphic sent to us shows the potential of HMS Queen Elizabeth, able to hold around 24 F-35s in the hangar and up to around 30 on deck, she'll be one of the most powerful warships ever to sail.