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R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth was an ocean-going steamship passenger liner of the Cunard Steamship Company. She was launched at the John Brown & Company Shibuilding and Engineering shipyard at Clydebank Scotland on September 27, 1938 and retired in 1968. She was the largest passenger steamship ever constructed and held the record for the largest passenger ship of any kind until being surpassed in 1996. She was named for Queen Elizabeth, the wife of King George VI of the United Kingdom, who was queen consort of the United Kingdom at the time the ship was built.The Queen Elizabeth was built in 1938 and her maiden voyage took place on March 3, 1940, after the outbreak of World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough. Her first trip was a secret trip to New York CitySkyline, with Statue of Liberty New York, New York" redirects here. For alternate meanings, see New York, New York (disambiguation). New York — officially named City of New York and often called New York City to distinguish it from the state of New York,. During the war, the Queen Elizabeth and her running mate, the R.M.S. Queen MaryThe RMS Queen Mary was a Cunard Line (then Cunard White Star Line) ocean liner that sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967. She was designed to be Britain's answer to the European super-liners of the late twenties and early thirties. The Queen, were used as troop transports. Their high speeds allowed them to outrun hazards such as the German U-boatOctober 1939. U-47 returns to port after sinking HMS Royal Oak''. The battlecruiser Scharnhorst is seen in the background. A U-boat is any of the German submarines of World War I and World War II, as well as the Austro-Hungarian submarines of World War I.s, allowing them to travel without a convoyThis article is about the general concept, particularly its use by the military. Convoy is also the name of a trucker's song by C. McCall and of a movie by Sam Peckinpah and Kris Kristofferson inspired by the song, as well as the Japanese name for the Tra.
After the war, the Queen Elizabeth, together with the Queen Mary, dominated the transatlanticFor the similarly named rock band, see TransAtlantic. The term transatlantic refers to something occurring across the Atlantic Ocean. Most often, this refers to the exchange of passengers, cargo, information, or communication between the United States and passenger trade for several decades until transatlantic ocean liner travel began to decline due to the faster transatlantic travel allowed by airplanes. Both ships were retired by 1969For other uses, see Number 1969. For the movie, see 1969 (movie). Events January January 1 Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper The News Of The World January 5 The Derry Riots leave over 100 people i and replaced by a single, smaller ship: the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (the QE2). The QE2 was named after the Queen Elizabeth, being the second ship to bear the name.
After its retirement, the Queen Elizabeth was bought by the Hong Kong tycoon Tung Chao Yung in 1970 and made into a university. Renamed the Seawise University she was destroyed by fire (believed to have been arson) on January 9, 1972, in Hong Kong harbour. Firefighting efforts only caused her capsizing. It was briefly shown and commented in the 1974 James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun when James Bond was traveling from Macao to Hong Kong by hydrofoil and visited a secret MI6 headquarters located within the wreck. The Queen Elizabeth was scrapped where she lay in 1975.
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth
