{"id":603725,"date":"2025-11-30T17:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/603725\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T17:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:13:14","slug":"hms-prince-of-wales-returns-to-portsmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/603725\/","title":{"rendered":"HMS Prince of Wales returns to Portsmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice Admiral says carrier project has &#8216;evolved massively&#8217;published at 15:55 GMT<\/p>\n<p>15:55 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><strong>Isabella Holliday<\/strong><br \/>Portsmouth<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vice Adm Stephen Moorhouse, CBE, stands on Portsmouth naval base in front of HMS Prince of Wales\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/53044a27-1ff3-42f5-a3d7-9c2556d5c202.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"4341\" height=\"2441\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vice Adm Stephen Moorhouse, CBE, said he was &#8220;hugely, hugely proud&#8221; of all that the crews had achieved on deployment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;You only have to look at the smiles on the faces of those men and women and their families, to understand personally and professionally what it means to them.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vice Adm Moorhouse has been part of the carrier project for up to 12 years and said it had &#8220;evolved massively&#8221; from previous deployments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll continue to test and develop the capabilities, but this deployment was really important,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the largest number of F35s on that deck. Norwegians sailing with us for that full deployment, so the international partners and no covid, so a lot more engagement with regional partners around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a huge milestone and something we should be really proud of.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vice Admiral says carrier project has &#8216;evolved massively&#8217;published at 15:55 GMT 15:55 GMT Isabella HollidayPortsmouth Vice Adm Stephen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-603725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115639774479702027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}