QUEEN ELIZABETH’s Island - The 680 tonne forward island of the s future Aircraft Carrier QUEEN ELIZABETH has departed from Portsmouth by barge for the 550 mile voyage Rosyth where it will be attached to the rest of the ship which is being assembled.   The forward island will be lifted in place on the flight deck by the Goliath crane at Rosyth.   The forward island, built by BAE/Portsmouth, contains the bridge of the carrier and has about 100 compartments with 43 kilometres (nearly 27 miles) of cabling and 3,101 pipes.     All consoles have been fitted, as have the bridge windows!       The aft island, still under construction at BAE/Scotstoun, will direct flight deck operations.        Unlike the rest of the ship, which is still in its red ‘undercoat’, the island has been painted battleship grey and a motif of the ship’s crest fixed to the structure.