TUGS REFLOAT QUEEN ELIZABETH FROM SANDBANK
LONDON,. April 16. After discharge of fuel and unloading of the baggage and 620 firstclass passengers, the liner’s bows were lifted four feet, and tugs at high tide about 6.30 p.m. G.M.T. pulled the Queen Elizabeth off the sand bank where she grounded in Southampton water. It is possible that some plates are strained. Under the pooled strength of a dozen tugs and her own giant screws she slid backwards 26 hours after grounding. The Queen Elizabeth then disappeared, from the sight of a thousand shore watchers in thick fog. Later she anchored at Cowes. It is expected that after a diver has inspected the liner’s bows, she will sail on the return voyage to New York this week. The preponderance of evidence seems to be that there was a fog earlier in the day, but that the weather was clear when the liner grounded.
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Grey River Argus, 17 April 1947, Page 8
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