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On this day - 1972 (Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth); January 9th
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Sunday, January 9, 1972. : Former ocean liner, the Queen Elizabeth, was destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbour

The RMS Queen Elizabeth was a steam-powered ocean liner of the Cunard Steamship Company. The ship was named after Queen Elizabeth, wife of King George VI of the UK and queen consort at the time it was built. It was launched in Scotland on 27 September 1938, and initially used as a transport vehicle during World War II.

In 1946, the ship left Southampton, England, on its first run across the Atlantic as a luxurious ocean liner. It was retired from service in 1968. Queen Elizabeth was the largest passenger steamship ever constructed and held the record for the largest passenger ship of any kind until being surpassed in 1996 by the Carnival Destiny.

In 1968, the Queen Elizabeth was sold to a group of US businessmen who planned to develop the ship into a hotel and tourist attraction. Generating huge debts and forced to close after being declared a fire hazard, it was sold in 1970 to C W Tung, a Taiwanese shipping tycoon, who intended to transform it into a mobile, floating university.

Renamed the Seawise University, the ship was destroyed by fire on 9 January 1972, in Hong Kong harbour. The wreck sank to the bottom of the harbour, where it remains today.


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