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In the 1960s the John Brown Shipyard on Glasgow’s Clydeside was posed a seemingly impossible challenge. The Cunard Steampship Company wanted a ship built to the scale of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, but light enough to sail in shallow waters.
The job became known as Contract 736 and after two years in the docks the Queen Elizabeth II embarked on her maiden voyage down the River Clyde to Greenock. This documentary examines the work that went into its building and was first aired on September 20, 1967.
Until 2008 the Cunard line operated the vessel as a transatlantic passenger ship, as a troop carrier during the Falklands War and from 2004 as a cruise ship around the Mediterranean.
The vessel is now owned by Nakheel, a division of Dubai World, with plans to turn it into a luxury hotel.
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