HMS Queen Elizabeth anchors in New York as Liz Truss says she wants to strengthen UK-US bond


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The Royal Navy's flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth has arrived in New York for its deployment to the United States to host an Anglo-American military conference. The ship dropped anchor within sight of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour yesterday. It set sail for the US from Portsmouth on 7 September in place of its sister ship HMS Prince of Wales, which broke down off the Isle of Wight days before the trip. The 65,000-tonne warship will be the floating venue for the Atlantic Future Forum, a defence conference focusing on Anglo-American military, political and strategic relations. The arrival...