QE2 off to Dubai, permanently!

She did. She was to be a floating university and had just been completed when several fires took hold. Not sure if she is still there though. She made a cameo appearance in a bond film IIRC?

Answers to both questions.:)

During the conversion however the vessel was gutted by a fire that broke out at several different places onboard, believed to be caused by arson. The ship toppled in shallow water in Hong Kong harbor on 9 January 1972. The wreckage was scrapped on the spot in 1974-1975, before the project could ever be truly realised.

The wreck was featured in the 1974 James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun, as a covert headquarters for MI6.

Following her scrapping, the largest passenger ship in active service was the SS France, which was longer but smaller than the Queen Elizabeth.

She was to be a floating university and had just been completed when several fires took hold.

Not sure if she is still there though.

I think she is under the new airport now!

She did. She was to be a floating university and had just been completed when several fires took hold. Not sure if she is still there though. She made a cameo appearance in a bond film IIRC?

Didn’t the QE1 burn and capsize in Hong Kong harbour??

The bloody thing is younger than me!! How come she gets pensioned off somewhere sunny and I still have to carry on til I’m 80 odd in the midlands piggin’ drizzle?!!? 😡
Lets hope she does not meet the same fate as QE1.
BTW, is the QE1 still reclining in the briney, or has she been cut up/rotted away?

Or have the anti-monarchy forces finally won?

No such luck but we’ll keep on trying!

You are referring to the the ship?:D

Or have the anti-monarchy forces finally won?

Ooh now there’s an idea ! 😀

You are referring to the the ship?:D

Or have the anti-monarchy forces finally won?