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Summary:At the John Brown shipyard on the Clyde in Scotland - birthplace of many of the world's biggest ocean liners - the last of the breed was launched on September 20 1967. This was the Queen Elizabeth the Second - better known as the QE2 - and there to carry out the ceremony was Queen Elizabeth II herself.
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Location:UK SCOTLAND CLYDE
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