The problems began for the carrier in May 2020 when a pipe burst, flooding a recreation area for the crew (pictured) Since then, she has been languishing in the Scottish port of Rosyth, where she was built, undergoing repairs which have ballooned in cost from £20million in March to an eye-watering £25million weeks later.Īnd on Monday, the beleaguered 65,000-tonne vessel will achieve her latest dismal milestone, notching up a year of her life undergoing repairs at port, compared to spending just 267 days at sea. And in August she was crippled when she broke down shortly after sailing out of her home city of Portsmouth, in Hampshire. She was flooded twice in her first year of service, causing millions of pounds of damage. When HMS Prince of Wales was christened into the Royal Navy on a damp, dreary December morning in 2019, there was an air of hope surrounding the future of the gleaming new aircraft carrier.īut fast-forward three years and the £3.2billion warship, the biggest ever built for Britain, has been plagued by one nightmare after another that has seen the 920ft ocean giant spending more time being fixed in port than at sea.
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