{"id":62544,"date":"2021-04-20T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=62544"},"modified":"2021-04-19T09:53:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T13:53:32","slug":"why-do-the-queen-elizabeth-class-carriers-have-twin-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/04\/20\/why-do-the-queen-elizabeth-class-carriers-have-twin-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do the <em>Queen Elizabeth<\/em>-class carriers have twin islands?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OMLDMhsAcaU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Not What You Think<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 28 Dec 2020<\/p>\n<p>There are at least five advantages to having two separate islands on the Royal Navy&#8217;s <em>Queen Elizabeth<\/em>-class aircraft carriers. But the main reason for such a design can only be found below the deck. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>All the footage used in this video is under MOD license from Royal Navy Imagery archive. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=QUFFLUhqbXhJc3BZRVVoa3FQR3hFMzdkbjgwNGpnY19wd3xBQ3Jtc0tsZ1kzaXdaVm9wVEtrYWxmcU5GSzVMV2dtSkYzakpod0luNmFwTmJmZFV4MngyNmxGaEstVGtGRTBXUDgwTUx4OUZEMkxfWkh6dF96MzZHRER3Wk5QcDhEWlBUZXF0dXMtSDVfckVaQ21sZnJqNnJCOA%3D%3D&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.royalnavy.mod.uk%2Fnews-and-latest-activity%2Fpublic-relations%2Froyal-navy-imagery&#038;event=video_description&#038;v=OMLDMhsAcaU\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.royalnavy.mod.uk\/news-and&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>REFERENCES:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ukdefencejournal.org.uk\/why-does-hms-queen-elizabeth-have-two-islands\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/ukdefencejournal.org.uk\/why-d&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.savetheroyalnavy.org\/the-reasons-hms-queen-elizabeth-has-two-islands\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.savetheroyalnavy.org\/the-&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_2021-04-20-Why-do-the-Queen-Elizabeth-class-carriers-have-twin-islands-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_2021-04-20-Why-do-the-Queen-Elizabeth-class-carriers-have-twin-islands--480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-65263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_2021-04-20-Why-do-the-Queen-Elizabeth-class-carriers-have-twin-islands--480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_2021-04-20-Why-do-the-Queen-Elizabeth-class-carriers-have-twin-islands--150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_2021-04-20-Why-do-the-Queen-Elizabeth-class-carriers-have-twin-islands--768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screenshot_2021-04-20-Why-do-the-Queen-Elizabeth-class-carriers-have-twin-islands-.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not What You Think Published 28 Dec 2020 There are at least five advantages to having two separate islands on the Royal Navy&#8217;s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers. But the main reason for such a design can only be found below the deck. Enjoy! All the footage used in this video is under MOD license from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,663],"tags":[617,140,30,61],"class_list":["post-62544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-military","category-weapons","tag-carriers","tag-design","tag-navy","tag-ships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ggM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65264,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62544\/revisions\/65264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}