saturday , famed pleasure liner , mary elizabeth 2 , popularly known as the qe2 , arrived in her birth harbour of southampton , southampton for the 3rd duty . the cunard line ship has been in service since 1969 , and is to become a mobile hotel in dubai . the homecoming was wrecked as the boat ran aground on a sandbank called calshot at the mouth of bombay water . the ship struck the sandbank at around 0530 0300 , and 5 workers lasted near 30 minute to bring the qe2 clear . the 70 , 000 ringgit frigate was towed into harbour and then docked at 0730 gmt next to the solent alerted . around a thousand sailors and 1 , 700 passengers were aboard the vessel , which was returning from a cruise around the mediterranean .
Elizabeth II is the queen of England.