The ship is moored at HMSB Portsmouth and its Wärtsilä diesel generators have caused people in Gosport, Hants, to complain of 'incessant noise pollution'
Daily Mail: Noisy engines on Royal Navy's newest £3.1 billion aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales are so loud they are keeping neighbours living near its Portsmouth base up at night
* The aircraft carrier has caused 'incessant noise pollution' with its diesel engines
* Homeowners in Gosport, Hants, have complained of the sound during lockdown
* Councillor Dawn Kelly says she can hear the 65,000-tonne ship from her home
The Royal Navy's newest super carrier is causing uproar in its home port because its noisy engines are keeping people awake at night with 'incessant noise pollution'.
The £3.1billion HMS Prince of Wales is running its massive diesel generators instead of being hooked up to a land-based power supply.
The 65,000-tonne ship returned to Portsmouth Naval Base, Hants, on March 25 and the racket will continue while the navy carrying out trials on a new power plant.
Exhausted harbour-side homeowners across the water in Gosport, Hants, say they are burying their heads under their pillows and suffering sleepless nights.
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WNU Editor: I would go nuts.
2 comments:
That base has been there forever, literally. Military bases make noise, it just is, either adjust to it or move.
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