The 100,000-ton behemoth is the largest aircraft carrier ever constructed and as these pictures show it dwarfed everything in its path as it sailed up the Solent. Compared to Britain’s ‘Big Lizzie’ – the HMS Queen Elizabeth – the USS Gerald R. Ford is nearly 40,000 tons heavier in terms of displacement.

​The 100,000-ton behemoth is the largest aircraft carrier ever constructed and as these pictures show it dwarfed everything in its path as it sailed up the Solent. Compared to Britain’s ‘Big Lizzie’ – the HMS Queen Elizabeth – the USS Gerald R. Ford is nearly 40,000 tons heavier in terms of displacement.