00:00It is without a doubt an awe-inspiring sight as we see the mighty HMS Prince of Wales coming
00:11just past the round tower with thousands of people lining.
00:16What a sound!
00:29Just thought I'd pause rather than trying to shout over the foghorn from HMS Prince of
00:35Wales here.
00:36And you can see actually lining the deck, this is Procedure Alpha it's known as, where hundreds
00:44of personnel from the ship go up onto the flight deck there and they are assuming a position
00:51right around the ship at the bow, at the stern, both port and starboard sides of this huge
01:00aircraft carrier to wave of course to the families, hats off, waving to the families who've come
01:08from all over.
01:09We were speaking a little earlier to a couple of families who've come all the way down from
01:14Hull, others from Liverpool.
01:16Right across the country there are people who have families on this ship heading out on what
01:25will be an eight month deployment, a very significant deployment to the other side of the world,
01:34stopping off in dozens of locations on the way.
01:38And of course, we're told that there is a port visit to Australia, which will be the first
01:44time that a British aircraft carrier of the new Queen Elizabeth class has docked at Portsmouth
01:52itself.
01:53And as we get this side on shot, you can just see what a huge aircraft carrier that is, 285
02:01metres long, 75 metres in width.
02:07And the official tonnage that was given for this aircraft carrier is 65,000 tonnes.
02:14There have been some sort of recalibrations of that and estimates now put it up to 75,000,
02:22maybe 80,000 tonnes.
02:24And as for the flight deck, it is enormous.
02:28There are four helicopters, one, two, three, four, five helicopters that I can see on board
02:35at the moment, Lynx aircraft at the front and Merlin helicopters towards the stern of this
02:45aircraft carrier.
02:47That is only just a small proportion of the air group that will assemble on this aircraft
02:57carrier because it's going to head now to the seas of Cornwall, where it will catch up
03:04with the rest of the carrier strike group, and then embark more helicopters before the
03:11F-35 combat jets.
03:14These fifth generation combat jets will go on board Prince of Wales, and we're told that
03:23potentially up to 24 of these jets, at least in the initial phase of this deployment, will
03:30be on this carrier.
03:31And if that is true or anywhere near 24, that will be the biggest deployment since the Falklands
03:39war way back in 1982 of combat aircraft in a marine environment for the UK.
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