Howdy!

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:26 AM, Timothy Collinson
<xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
[snip]
>
> You can find some basic details here:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_aircraft_carrier
>
> I appreciate that although it might "Britain's biggest", our American
> friends are probably laughing in their boots compared to your carriers, but
> it didn't look too dwarfed when she met the USS George H.W. Bush in the
> third episode.  And as was pointed out, she's much more modern.  (But
> electrically powered, rather than nuclear powered).
>
Well, the things spinning the big wheels at the back are electric
motors (just  like
CV-2, Lexington had a few decades ago). The prime movers are gas turbines
and diesel engines (instead of a nuke plant).

...just clarifying.

yours,
Michael

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