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VIDEO: Tearful Clyde says goodbye to QE2

It was a day when grown men openly shed a tear. In their thousands they lined the esplanade at Greenock, watching with a mixture of pride and reverence as the QE2 left the Clyde for the last time.

SUSAN SWARBRICK

It was a day when grown men openly shed a tear, even the most hardy confessing to a lump in the throat.