The liner Queen Elizabeth ran aground in a fog on the Brambles shingle bank, at the entrance to Southampton Water, on Monday afternoon. She was due at Southampton at 5.30 p.m., with 2200 passengers and a crew of 1200, from New York. Visibility was practically nil, and other ships were delayed for up to six hours before docking. Early yesterday morning, according to a message from London, a fleet of 12 tugs attempted unsuccessfully to refloat the Queen Elizabeth on the tide. A tug master said that the liner was well aground. Most of her bow seemed stuck very tightly in a sand bar.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26437, 16 April 1947, Page 5
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104The liner Queen Elizabeth ran aground in a fog on the Brambles shingle bank, at the entrance to Southampton Water, on Monday afternoon. She was due at Southampton at 5.30 p.m., with 2200 passengers and a crew of 1200, from New York. Visibility was practically nil, and other ships were delayed for up to six hours before docking. Early yesterday morning, according to a message from London, a fleet of 12 tugs attempted unsuccessfully to refloat the Queen Elizabeth on the tide. A tug master said that the liner was well aground. Most of her bow seemed stuck very tightly in a sand bar. Otago Daily Times, Issue 26437, 16 April 1947, Page 5
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