Looking Back in Time

[Doc Vernon]

(photo shows the burnt out, capsized Seawise University, the former Queen Elizabeth, in Hong Kong harbor, March 1972)

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[Captain Kong]

When they scrapped her the bottom half was stuck in the mud so they have built a Container Berth over the site.
It was also shown in a James Bond film, as she is in the photo, There was a MI5 office inside with M.


She was to be the Seawise University, a Floating University, BUT It was rumoured that CY Tung`s son had it burned after a fall out with his Dad. He was out of his will.
I was introduced to CY in Falmouth at the Agents Office, he came in a Pink Rolls Royce, and he in the process of buying the Furness Whithy container ships laid up in the Fal. He was only a very small man, I shook his hand when the Agent introduced us.
Cheers
Brian.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Vernon.
Very sad picture, they say that men used to cry when they saw their ship sink, like the passing of an old friend, believe it or not when they sunk a not so old naval ship off Sydney for diving, I had tears in my eyes, my wife called me a soppy old $%#@.
Cheers Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Hard to believe that the photo is of what ios left of on eof the greatest ships ever to come out of UK.