Things You Don't See Every Day: Three Aircrft Carriers Meet Up In The Gulf Of Aden

Although it carries aircraft the Iwo Jima isn't technically an aircraft carrier but who am I to argue with NavalNews.com?

July 12:

GULF OF ADEN (July 12, 2021) Ships of the UK Carrier Strike Group, USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group, and Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group operate in formation in the Gulf of Aden, July 12, 2021. UK, Dutch and U.S. naval forces conducted an integrated at-sea exercise designed to enhance maritime interoperability and demonstrate naval integration through a series of training scenarios. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Gray Gibson)....

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The HMS Queen Elizabeth, flagship of the Royal Navy, is leading the way in the photo above. She just reported a Covid-19 outbreak within the last hour. If you are going to have an outbreak that is probably as good a place as any, with a younger, fitter crew than the one I hang out with.

And speaking of Queen Elizabeth here's another meet-up of three slightly beefier ships (they displace ~100,000 tonnes more than the carriers): 

 

Three Queens In Liverpool: Cunard's Big Gals Dancing On The Mersey

I know the first part of the headline sounds like a RuPaul event but it's actually the Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and the Queen Elizabeth getting together in Cunard's former headquarters city over the Bank Holiday weekend.

From the "You don't see that every day" file:

 

The Liverpool Echo had wall-to-wall coverage with dozens of pics.

Three Queens Liverpool 2015 live: Mersey bids farewell to Cunard spectacular

Three Queens Liverpool 2015: Overheard at the Three Queens

Queen Victoria ends Three Queens celebration with spectacular spinning surprise