Carrier's crew work their way through half a mountain's worth of sausages
HMS Prince of Wales has revealed how much food it took to keep her crew fuelled during their recent deployment - including a staggering 48,500 sausages - or half the height of Mount Everest.
The aircraft carrier also said her personnel had consumed around 36,000 litres of milk - enough to fill 190 bathtubs - since 1 September.
The Royal Navy aircraft carrier, which is on her way back to the UK after being deployed to the eastern United States for sea and air trials, revealed some impressive food figures.
Together the crew of HMS Prince of Wales, one of the most powerful surface warships ever constructed in the UK, got through 415,000 meals.
HMS Prince of Wales also revealed on X, formerly known as Twitter, how the crew had gone through 6,220kg of bacon and 118,776 rashers - or an elephant's worth - as well as 111,000 eggs.
It was not all about food though, as the post also featured some fascinating facts about aviation relating to the Queen Elizabeth-class carrier's US deployment.
It said 1,138 deck landings had been carried out, involving 13 aircraft types, and 60 shipborne rolling vertical landings.
"That's 3.4 miles of runway used!" HMS Prince of Wales said on X.
The stats from HMS Prince of Wales seemed to be very popular on social media, so much so that they released even more.
"It seems everyone loves a stat…," HMS Pow posted on X.
The warship revealed that it has gone through, 15,000,000litres of fresh water (6 Olympic Swimming Pools), and 17,045 toilet rolls (372 miles worth, approximately Portsmouth to Edinburgh.
And there has been according to the aircraft carrier "enough visitors to fill 28 Double Decker Buses! and 26,000,000 shaft revolutions".
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