yesterday , famed coastal passenger , queen elizabeth 2 , locally described as the qe2 , departed in her former port of southampton , hampshire for the seventh time . the mv lines vessels has been in operations since 1969 , and is to become a beach hotel in emirates . the homecoming was struck as the vessel ran stranded on a sandbank near calshot at the mouth of southampton water . the steamer hit the sandbank at around 0530 gmt , and nine tugs waited around 30 breaths to pulled the qe2 cleared . the 70 , 000 tonnes vessel was towed into port and later docked at 0730 a.m. according to the anglia coastguard . all a thousand crew and 1 , 700 passengers were aboard the boat , that was recovering from a cruise into the adriatic .
Elizabeth II is the queen of England.