[BITList] Assembly to begin on Britain's biggest warship - Channel4 News

[HUGH]

Mike,

Apart from on a "barge", that is?  There is a chance, as long as they who are assembling her are not they who are writing about her.

I quote :


<< An 8,000-tonne section of the Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier begins a 600 mile journey from Glasgow to a shipyard in the north of Scotland to be assembled.

.........



The mid-section of hull, known as "lower block 03", is the first part of the £2.6bn HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier to go into the dry dock.

 

It took two years to build and is being moved by sea from a shipyard in Govan in Glasgow to Rosyth on the Forth, where the carrier is due to be pieced together on 21 August.>>



The Rosyth base is not a shipyard, Rosyth is not in the north of Scotland, the assembly will not be "pieced together" (dear God) in a drydock (?), and (incidentally) there are people in Govan who would argue against the notion that Govan was ever incorporated into Glasgow.  Old Govan was on both the north and south sides of the river - the name vanished from the bit on the north side.



I note from the photo that the "barge" is the odd looking vessel that lay alongside Fergusons' fitting-out quay in Port Glasgow for some months.



Hugh.
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