HMT Queen Elizabeth
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | RMS Queen Elizabeth |
| Builder/Built | 1938 John Brown and Company, Clydebank. |
| Type | Ocean Liner |
| Displacement | 83,673 tons |
| Speed | 28.5 knots |
Remarks
Built for the White Cunard Line. Elaborate security precautions were taken to mask her first voyage from the shipyards to New York. Cunard received a letter from Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, ordering the ship to leave Clydeside as soon as possible and "to keep away from the British Isles as long as the order was in force".Queen Elizabeth left the port of New York on 13 November 1940 for Singapore to receive her troopship conversion.