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 Elizabeth Mouse That Roared", starring Peter Sellers and Jean Seberg. While a troupe of invading men from "Grand Fenwick", a fictional European micro-nation, cross the Atlantic to 'war' with the United States, they meet and pass the far larger "Queen Elizabeth", and learn that New York City is closed due to an air raid drill. Ian Fleming set the climax to his 1956 "James Bond" novel "Diamonds Are Forever" on "Queen Elizabeth". The 1971 film version starring Connery used the P&O liner for the sequence. The charred wreck was featured in the 1974 "James Bond" film "The Man with the Golden