As communities on the Clyde held services to remember the fallen this morning, aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth sailed into Loch Long.
The 65,000-tonne vessel passed Cove and Strone at 10am today on her way to the munitions jetty at Glen Mallan.
This is her third visit of the year, and the A814 between Whistlefield and Arrochar has again been closed – last month Argyll and Bute Council announced that it would be resurfaced.
The MoD had requested in 2019 that the road would always be closed when aircraft carriers came in, but Argyll and Bute Council refused.
Construction of HMS Queen Elizabeth began in 2009 with six shipyards around the UK involved in building different sections of the ship which were then transported to Rosyth dockyard where they were assembled.
Queen Elizabeth II officially named the carrier in 2014.
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