The prestige of the British navy is shattered: Aircraft carrier is grounded due to mission failure

Britain’s largest warship, the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales, was forced to anchor off the southern coast of England due to damage to its propeller shaft, shortly after setting sail for a major mission in the US.

According to a Royal Navy spokesman, the five-year-old aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales suffered a “mechanical failure” in the propeller shaft – the same part that had problems with Britain’s second aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth five years ago, causing it to take… water .

HMS Prince o Wales developed the problem while sailing near the Isle of Wight in the English Channel and after already being forced by a technical problem to postpone its departure from Portsmouth Naval Base by a day on Friday with thousands of music fans cheering it on as it passed close by Victorious music festival on Southsea Common in Portsmouth