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
HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) prior to the ship returning to sea. During the stopover at Invergordon, "Queen Elizabeth" encountered the cruise liner of the same name, which was on a cruise around the British Isles. On 8 August 2017, "Queen Elizabeth" diverted from her sea trials to rendezvous with the ships engaged in Exercise 'Saxon Warrior'; this allowed for a photo exercise in company with the American and her battle group, comprising , , , and HNoMS "Helge Ingstad". "Queen Elizabeth" was scheduled to return to Rosyth at the end of July for rectification work based on the results of the ship's first sea