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HMS Queen Elizabeth is the largest warship ever built in the UK
The Queen is due to give her name to the largest warship built in the UK at a ceremony in Fife's Rosyth dockyard.
She will smash a bottle of whisky on the hull of the 65,000-tonne HMS Queen Elizabeth - the first of two new Royal Navy aircraft carriers being built.
PM David Cameron and First Minister Alex Salmond are both due to attend.
Six shipyards in the UK - Appledore, Birkenhead, Govan, Portsmouth, Rosyth and Tyne - have been involved in building parts of the carrier.
More than 10,000 people in more than 100 companies have worked on HMS Queen Elizabeth, which has been beset by construction and design delays.
The estimated cost of the aircraft carrier and its sister ship is £6.2bn, well over the initial projected cost of £3.65bn.
The warship - the largest ever built in and for the UK - is as long as 25 buses and can carry 40 jets and helicopters at a time. It will have a permanent crew of almost 700 when it enters service in 2020.
The Queen will perform the naming ceremony at Rosyth with a bottle of whisky rather than champagne.
The monarch will smash a bottle of Islay malt whisky, from Bowmore Distillery, against the ship.
Bowmore was the first distillery the Queen ever visited in an official capacity.
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The carrier has still to be fitted out and floated, to make way for the assembly of its sister ship HMS Prince of Wales.
Assembly of HMS Prince of Wales is set to begin at Rosyth later this year.
The naming of the first of the two ships comes five years after the first metal was cut on the vessel and 33 months after the first section entered the dry dock at Rosyth for assembly.
Firefighters had to be called to a fire on board the ship last month.
It is believed that a small fire had started in one of the vessel's hull compartments.
Fire crews reported only minor damage.
'Floating military city'Ian Booth, from the Aircraft Carrier Alliance which is overseeing the ships' construction, said the naming of HMS Queen Elizabeth would be an "immensely proud moment" for all involved.
He said: "We now have very flexible warships which have been designed to meet the UK's military maritime needs for the next 50 years.
"They are really flexible ships with massive capability built into them.
"They are effectively a floating military city that can deploy aircraft, that can act as a disaster relief centre.
"They have their own hospital with operating theatres. They can support land forces, all sorts of military interventions."
When the naming ceremony was announced earlier this year, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said it would a be a "proud and historic day" for the Royal Navy and the nation.
He said at the time: "This occasion will mark a major milestone in regenerating the UK's aircraft-carrier fleet and its power projection capability."
First Sea Lord Admiral Sir George Zambellas said in February: "The Royal Navy is delighted that Her Majesty will name this great ship - the first of a class that will return fast-jet carrier operations to our nation's war fighting credibility."
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