At the time the largest ocean liner ever built, the Queen Elizabeth, was launched from John Brown's shipyard at Clydebank. In 1940 she steamed to New York, in a secret initiative by Winston Churchill to prevent her being damaged during hostilities and allow her to be completed as a troop-ship. Her maiden voyage as a passenger liner was in 1946. Her size was not exceeded until the launch of the Queen Mary 2 in 2003.
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