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
RMS Queen Mary 2 RMS Queen Mary 2 RMS "Queen Mary 2 (also referred to as the QM2") is a transatlantic ocean liner. She is the largest passenger ship built for the Cunard Line since "Queen Elizabeth 2" in 1969, the vessel she succeeded as flagship of the line. As of 2018, "Queen Mary 2" is the only passenger ship operating as an ocean liner. The new ship was named "Queen Mary 2" by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 after the first of 1936. "Queen Mary" was in turn named after Mary of Teck, consort of King George V. With the retirement of "Queen