HMS Queen Elizabeth, the largest warship ever built in the UK, has been successfully floated out of the dock at the Rosyth Dockyard in Fife, in which she was assembled.

The 65,000-tonne Royal Navy aircraft carrier was formally named by the Queen earlier this month.

In an operation that started earlier this week, the dry dock was flooded for the first time to allow the vessel to float. It was then manoeuvred out of the dock in a three-hour operation this morning, and berthed at a nearby jetty. Teams will now continue to fit out the ship and prepare the vessel for sea trials in 2016.

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