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Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
RMS Queen Elizabeth (ship)
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Description area
Dates of existence
1939 - 1972
History
83,673 gross tons, passenger liner In Cunard Line’s transatlantic service from 1939 to 1968. She served as a troopship from 1940 to 1945 and was famously docked in Esquimalt Graving Dock in February 1942 for underwater hull work and fitting of additional troop accommodation. She re-entered transatlantic service in 1946, was taken out of service in 1969, and was burned at Hong Kong while being converted to a floating university in 1972 and scrapped.