The job was to install huge numbers of health and safety signs on the 280 metre long ship of the line. Sign Plus was awarded the contract by BAE Systems to supply all internal signage while defence contractors Babcock commissioned the firm to supply and apply the ship’s crest and name on the exterior of the vast grey ship.

Sign Plus says they were, ‘delighted to be part of the supply chain working together to deliver this stunning ship’.
In July the new aircraft carrier was officially named HMS Queen Elizabeth by (rather fittingly) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II who launched the ship with  a bottle of Islay whisky, a fitting gesture given that the carrier currently sits in dock at Babcock, Rosyth, on the Firth of Forth in Scotland.

The ship has captured the imagination of many people with its eye-watering dimensions. Its landing deck would allow more than 400 London buses to park although it is designed to accommodate 40 aircraft including vertical take-off jets and short run take-off hybrid aircraft.

Around 679 sailors and military personnel will be needed to run and operate the ship that has a range of 10,000 nautical miles and can speed at 25 knots across the ocean with its phalanx of guns, missiles and rockets. The mighty ship has a main deck that is 73m wide and a draught is 11m and will not be in service until 2017.

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