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Built by John Brown & Co. at Clydesbank, Glasgow, Queen Elizabeth was the largest passenger ship in the world at the time. She left the Clyde for New York under wartime conditions on 27 February 1940 and served as a troopship from 1940 to 1946. Refit for passenger service in 1946, she made her first voyage from Southampton to New York on 16 October 1946 and remained in service until retiring in 1968. Sold to a Hong Kong buyer and converted to a floating university, she caught fire and capsized while undergoing renovations in Hong Kong Harbor in 1972. Her wreck was deemed an obstruction and was scrapped where she lay. Her years were ’40 and 1946-68, her gross tonnage was 83,673, her size was 1,031 feet by 118 feet, her propulsion was quadruple screw turbines, and her cruising speed was 29 knots.
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