{"id":7462,"date":"2012-12-26T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/qe2-sold-for-scrap\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T00:40:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T00:40:00","slug":"qe2-sold-for-scrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/12\/qe2-sold-for-scrap\/","title":{"rendered":"QE2 sold for scrap."},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2012\/12\/23\/article-2252580-00EBC938000004B0-934_634x402.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"252\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2012\/12\/23\/article-2252580-00EBC938000004B0-934_634x402.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>End of an era. QE2 headed to China for scrap metal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The QE2 is set to be sold as scrap to the Chinese for \u00a320m.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows the failure of a after a last minute bid to bring it back to the famous cruise liner back to Britain as a five-star floating hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The iconic ocean liner &#8211; which also served as a troop carrier during the Falklands &#8211; has been moored in a commercial port in Dubai since it was sold for \u00a364m in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2252580\/End-era-QE2-Iconic-cruise-liner-sold-scrap-Chinese-20m.html#ixzz2GgCmxOaD\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2252580\/End-era-QE2-Iconic-cruise-liner-sold-scrap-Chinese-20m.html#ixzz2GgCmxOaD<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Follow us: <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rw?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&#038;u=MailOnline\">@MailOnline on Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rf?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&#038;u=DailyMail\">DailyMail on Facebook<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End of an era. QE2 headed to China for scrap metal The QE2 is set to be sold as scrap to the Chinese for \u00a320m. The move follows the failure of a after a last minute bid to bring it back to the famous cruise liner back to Britain as a five-star floating hotel. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}