Foreign vessels have also visited the city over the years, including a historic trip by US aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman back in 2018.
We have had a look back through our picture archive, and Getty Images, to find some historic pictures of Royal Navy and foreign aircraft carriers visiting Portsmouth over the years.
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![Fleet Air Arm Blackburn Firebrand TF MkV single-engine strike fighters of 827 Naval Air Squadron at readiness on the flight deck of HMS Eagle during exercises in the English Channel on 19 March 1952.](https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/webimg/b25lY21zOjY3OWRhM2JjLWVmNDktNDI2OC04MTRhLTY2YmI1Nzk4OGFiNzphMjAxMTgyMy0zMWYxLTQ1YmYtOGU5OC1hOGFjOGMyMGM5NjY=.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
13. HMS Eagle
Fleet Air Arm Blackburn Firebrand TF MkV single-engine strike fighters of 827 Naval Air Squadron at readiness on the flight deck of HMS Eagle during exercises in the English Channel on 19 March 1952.Photo: The News archive
![The Gosport ferry passes the US warship USS Harry S. Truman, anchored in The Solent on October 8, 2018 near Portsmouth.](https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/webimg/b25lY21zOjQxYTViYjFjLThmZmMtNDUzMi1iMjZiLTY4NWE0MDhmOGE3Mjo0MjAwMGM5MS01OTE2LTRjMGYtOTI3OC1iMDNmNzZjZWVjMjU=.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
14. Aircraft carriers in Portsmouth
The Gosport ferry passes the US warship USS Harry S. Truman, anchored in The Solent on October 8, 2018 near Portsmouth.Photo: USS Harry S. Truman
![Nairana-class escort aircraft carrier HMS Campania arrives to be readied as the command ship for Operation Hurricane, the test of the first British atomic bomb on the Monte Bello Islands off western Australia on 2 June 1952.](https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/webimg/b25lY21zOjFjYjExYWMzLWE3M2YtNDgzZC04YmQxLTdlNDhiOGI4NjJiZToxNDYwNzFhMi00NmVhLTQwZjUtYTdjZS1jNTNiNzdhNTQ0OWI=.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
15. HMS Campania
Nairana-class escort aircraft carrier HMS Campania arrives to be readied as the command ship for Operation Hurricane, the test of the first British atomic bomb on the Monte Bello Islands off western Australia on 2 June 1952.Photo: The News archive
![Officers and crew line the flight deck of the Royal Navy Centaur-class light fleet aircraft carrier HMS Bulwark as she is waved off by family and holidaymakers on the quayside for patrol in the Mediterranean on 7 July 1956.](https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/webimg/b25lY21zOjc4ZWI3ZGNkLTQyZDAtNDhlNi1hZDZjLTkxZDg0YjcwZGFhNTo5ZWM4YThlYS1iZDlmLTQ0ZmEtYTlkMi03ZmQ2ZGIzYmRmNjY=.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
16. HMS Bulwark
Officers and crew line the flight deck of the Royal Navy Centaur-class light fleet aircraft carrier HMS Bulwark as she is waved off by family and holidaymakers on the quayside for patrol in the Mediterranean on 7 July 1956.Photo: The News archive