Torrance, California: Anchor From The Ship Queen Elizabeth
Once part of the mightiest ocean liner in the world, the anchor from the Queen Elizabeth now sits ignored in a patch of grass across from a shopping mall.
- Address:
- 3440 W. Carson St., Torrance, CA
- Directions:
- On the south side of W. Carson St. just east of its intersection with Del Amo Circle E.
- Admission:
- Free
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The RMS Queen Elizabeth caught fire under suspicious circumstances and capsized off of Hong Kong in 1972, not two years after billionaire C.Y. Tung purchased the ship, sank more than $5 million into renovating it, and renamed it "Seawise University" for his planned semester-at-sea program as a floating university. It remained half-sunk through the late 1990s. A 16-ton anchor and the letters "Q" and "E" are on display outside an office building at Del Amo Shopping Center, where the headquarters of the ill-fated Seawise University was to be located.
Another anchor and set of letters are displayed in New York at a building that once housed Yung's offices but is now occupied by a bank.
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