Once the world's largest passenger ship, RMS Queen Elizabeth is docked in 1971 at Port Everglades, Florida, USA, where it was renamed Seawise University and intended to become a floating school that sailed the world. However, a year later the ocean liner caught fire and sank in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor while it was being refurbished as a floating campus for students. Parts of the 83,000-ton vessel that were not salvaged became a navigational hazard in the harbor until being buried with landfill in the late 1990s. Historical photo.
Once the world's largest passenger ship, RMS Queen Elizabeth is docked in 1971 at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, where it was renamed Seawise University and intended to become a floating school that sailed the world. However, a year later the ocean liner caught fire and sank in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor while it was being refurbished as a floating campus for students. Parts of the 83,000-ton vessel that were not salvaged became a navigational hazard in the harbor until being buried with landfill in the late 1990s. With room for 2,283 passengers, the Queen Elizabeth made transatlantic crossings for 30 years after her launch in1938, which included time as a troopship during World War II. When the Cunard Line retired the Queen Elizabeth and her sister ship Queen Mary in 1969, they were replaced by a smaller cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2. Historical photo.
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Location: Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Photo credit: © Michele and Tom Grimm / Alamy / Afripics
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