Queen Elizabeth to name warship Queen Elizabeth

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Source: AFP

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London (AFP) - Queen Elizabeth II will officially name Britain's biggest ever warship, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, at a ceremony in July, the Ministry of Defence announced on Saturday.

The monarch will give the 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier a traditional champagne christening at the Rosyth dockyard near Edinburgh on July 4 to mark its completion.

The ship is named after both the 87-year-old monarch and England's Queen Elizabeth I, who reigned from 1558 to 1603.

Thousands are expected to line the banks of the Firth of Forth for the event, including the workers who helped to build it. More than 7,000 people in more than 100 companies around Britain have played a hand in its construction.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/queen-elizabeth-name-warship-queen-elizabeth-143959491.html

[dipsydoodle]

1. Appropriately

[pscot]

5. An obsolete monarch

naming a piece of obsolete technology.

[malthaussen]

2. Talk about a pork-barrel.

The UK needs the Queen Elizabeth about as much as they need Queen Elizabeth.

Less, actually. There is at least a rationale for the biological one.

-- Mal

[Nye Bevan]

4. Might come in handy if the Argentinians try to annexe British territory again (nt)

[awoke_in_2003]

9. The British people...

want the biological one, whether we Americans understand it or not.

[Drunken Irishman]

10. That's what I always find funny - Americans saying how obsolete it is...

Sure, you'll find a great deal of British who believe the same, but it's clear most believe, and support, the monarchy. It's not our problem.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. Yes indeed...

it works for them, so who are we to say anything? Hell, look at all the pomp that surrounds US presidents.

[tabasco]

14. LOL.

Obtain power to rule people just by being born. The concept is repulsive.

Anyone who "supports" a monarch, even as an historic figurehead, is an idiot.

[caraher]

16. "Perhaps some day we'll have a computer queen..."

Philomena Cunk seems open to a non-biological queen, with one caveat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6DELlCwp7Zk#t=118

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. David Tennant should attend.

[jsr]

6. We have a bigger boat:

[Kelvin Mace]

7. "Now go forth and inflict death and misery

unto all who are naughty in our eyes, neglecting not the littlest of children, nor the frailest of the elderly who were too stupid not be born powerless vestiges of imperialism's glory days."

[EX500rider]

8. Not surprising they want a little bit of power projection..

.....they certainly found out they needed it in 1982.

[Burf-_-]

12. Yo Dawg

We heard you like aircraft carriers, so we put Queen Elizabeth on the deck of Her Majesties ship so she can be the Queen while she's aboard the Queen Elizabeth being the Queen.

[MMcGuire]

13. Get a job!

hehe

[MMcGuire]

15. When I say get a job

(Not you personally, I just wanted to say)