Bring Clyde-built QE2 back home - The Sunday Times

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Bring Clyde-built QE2 back home The Sunday Times Jim McColl has voiced support to bring back the iconic ship, which left British shores in 2008, to boost the Scottish economy, describing plans to relocate it to Greenock as “absolutely achievable”. The campaign is backed by ... Launched by the Queen, the one-time Cunard flagship liner was decommissioned and sold to the United Arab Emirates government conglomerate Dubai World for £64m in 2008 before the economic downturn ruined plans to turn it into a floating hotel. With its engine switched off in 2013 and a ...