The British Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier is expected to have a special mobile phone app to help crew navigate the large vessel, the local media reported on Wednesday.

The HMS Queen Elizabeth, currently being fitted out at Rosyth in Fife in eastern Scotland, is set to be officially christened by the Queen in a ceremony at the site on July 4, said the report.

BAE Systems, the British multinational defence, security and aerospace company, have taken the unusual step of creating a special mobile phone app to guide the crew to navigate the decks.

The HMS Queen Elizabeth and a second vessel, the under-construction HMS Prince of Wales, are the largest warships ever built for the British Royal Navy, with an unprecedented 3,000 compartments for each ship, spreading cross 12 decks, and a 20-minute routine journey.

Costing an estimated 6.2 billion pounds (10.26 billion U.S. dollars), the 65,000-ton warship is now structurally complete at Roysth, while outfitting work is continuing in the run-up to the naming ceremony and its subsequent introduction to the water.

The formal naming ceremony will come five years after the first metal was cut on the vessel and 33 months after the first section entered the drydock at Rosyth to begin being put together. Endi

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