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On Friday night, divers carried out an underwater inspection on HMS Queen Elizabeth, one of the Royal Navy’s two aircraft carriers. They discovered corrosion on a shaft coupling and this means the ship will need to be repaired in dry dock. The Navy is now scrambling to get her sister ship, HMS Prince of Wales, ready in order to take Queen Elizabeth’s place on a major Nato exercise. This setback is the latest in a long struggle over the last quarter-of-a-century in which the Royal Navy has sought