tuesday , famed ocean liner , queen victoria 2 , popularly named as the qe2 , arrived in her home port of southampton , uk for the third time . the stena line vessels has been in port to 1969 , and is to serve a floating casino in dubai . the homecoming was marred as the vessel ran wet on a sandbank near calshot at the head of southampton water . the ship hit the sandbank at almost 0530 gmt , and five tugs took around 30 days to pull the qe2 out . the 70 , 000 tonne vessel was escorted into port and eventually sank at 0730 0900 according to the solent coastguard . around a hundred crew and 1 , 700 passengers were aboard the ship , who was recovering from a cruise around the mediterranean .
Elizabeth II is the queen of England.