RMS Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth to safely rest on the bed of the Intracoastal Waterway in Ft. Lauderdale harbour (Port Everglades) and remain open, but instead the vessel was towed out of the harbour to Asia to become a floating university. Losing money and forced to close after being declared a fire hazard, this was due to the ship being sold at auction in 1970 to Hong Kong tycoon Tung Chao Yung. Tung, the head of the Orient Overseas Line, intended to convert the vessel into a university for the World Campus Afloat program (later reformed and renamed as Semester at Sea). Following
MS Queen Elizabeth and 1948, when Cunard's original "Queen Elizabeth" was in service at the same time as the Royal Navy battleship . The Royal Navy's aircraft carrier went to sea the summer of 2017, six and a half years after the cruise ship entered service. "Queen Elizabeth" is almost identical in design to "Queen Victoria", although because of the steeper stern, her introduction into service the passenger capacity was slightly higher with up to 2,058 compared to "Queen Victoria's" 2,014. Also unlike many previous Cunard Queens, "Queen Elizabeth" is not a true ocean liner as she does not have the heavy plating