Definitions for "HMS Prince of Wales"
Keywords:  hms, navy, prince, wales, royal
Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Prince of Wales, after the Prince of Wales.
HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy, built at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, England. The Prince of Wales had a brief but active career, helping to stop the Bismarck and carrying Churchill to the Newfoundland Conference; however her loss to Japanese land-based bombers in the Far East in 1941 is one of the events that led to the end of the battleship being considered the predominant class in naval warfare.
HMS Prince of Wales is the name believed to have been assigned to the second of the Royal Navy's two CVF aircraft carriers, believed to be entering serivce in 2015."http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/cvf.htm Queen Elizabeth class Future Aircraft Carrier CVF (002)." Pike, J. Global Security.org.