Laid up temporarily in the Ocean Dock at Southampton in August 1972. She was built in San Francisco in 1942 and started life off as an aircraft carrier!
Following conversion to a passenger ship she came to Sitmar in the 1950s where she remained until about 1977/78 when she became PHILIPPINE TOURIST until going for scrap in 1980 following a fire.
QE2 observes the scene as she gets ready to depart for New York.
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