The QE2 made a historic return to her birthplace today, 40 years after her launch.
The 70,000-tonne ship received a warm welcome as she sailed into the Clyde and docked at Greenock.
The stop is part of an eight-day anniversary voyage around Britain.
The QE2 left Southampton on Saturday, visiting North Shields and South Queensferry as part of the commemorative tour.
Pipers played as she was pulled into Greenock's Ocean Terminal at around 6.30am, where hundreds of people turned out along the quayside for her arrival despite the early hour.
Up on deck, scores of passengers held aloft Union Jacks and Saltire flags and clapped and cheered as she made her way in.
Blue and white balloons decorated parts of the ship.
Passenger William Hamilton, from Gourock, said: "This is what I've been looking forward to for the whole trip.
"It's the reason I booked on this voyage - to sail back up the Clyde.
"My father was a draughtsman in Port Glasgow and the QE2 has a special link to a lot of people in the area."
Another traveller from Dumfries, who has been on the ship 30 times, said: "It means a lot to the people of Glasgow and to Scotland.
"It's part of Scotland that travels the world and it's been a bit of an obsession of mine.
"I have booked to sail on her last voyage to Dubai next year."
The QE2, Cunard's most successful passenger ship, was launched by the Queen in Clydebank on September 20, 1967.
Constructed at the John Brown shipyard, her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York came two years later.
Since then the vessel, one of the world's fastest and most powerful transatlantic liners, has sailed more more than 5.6 million nautical miles.
Next year will be the QE2's last at sea. It was announced in June that the luxury liner is to become a floating hotel in Dubai.
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