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Subj: Today in History - Jan 09
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In Hong Kong harbor, a fire breaks out aboard the Queen Elizabeth, and
by the next morning the famous vessel lies in a wreck on the bottom of
the sea floor.
The RMS Queen Elizabeth, boasting a 200,000-horsepower engine and an
elegant art deco style, made its public debut in 1946, leaving
Southampton, England, on its first luxurious run across the Atlantic.
However, before her days as a lavish passenger liner, the Queen
Elizabeth steamed across the ocean for another purpose–as a transport
vehicle during World War II.
During the late 1930s, workers at a Scottish construction site began
building a sea vessel for the Cunard Line ocean liner company that would
be larger and more luxurious than anything the world had ever seen.
However, the outbreak of World War II in 1939 prevented the completion
of the Queen Elizabeth‘s finer points. The vessel was hastily made
seaworthy for wartime service and was used as a transport vessel for the
Allies, carrying massive amounts of supplies and several hundred
thousand troops around the world until the war’s end.
After her retirement from the Cunard Line in 1968, the Queen Elizabeth
was auctioned off to the highest bidder, eventually being purchased in
1970 by C.W. Tung, a Taiwanese shipping tycoon. Tung renamed the vessel
Seawise University and began work on converting the ship into a learning
center that would tour the world. However, in early 1972, as the mobile
university neared completion, a fire destroyed the pride of the Cunard
Line.
73 de Scott KF5JRV
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