HMS Queen Elizabeth explained

HMS Queen Elizabeth could refer to one of three ships named in honour of Elizabeth I of England:

• was the lead ship of the s, launched in 1913 and scrapped in 1948
• HMS Queen Elizabeth was to have been the first of the 1960s planned CVA-01-class aircraft carriers, but the class was never constructed
• is the first ship of the s, launched in 2014, on sea trials as of June 2017 and commissioned in December 2017

Battle honours

• Dardanelles 1915
• Crete 1941
• Sabang 1944
• Burma 1944–45
• East Indies 1945