QE2 Final Profits

"Lower fuel costs, stronger than expected yields on close-in bookings and a gain of $31m on the sale of Cunard’s QE2 helped push Carnival Corp. & plc past Wall Street expectations and its year-ago earnings by posting a fourth quarter profit of 47 cents per share."

So the QE2 made lots of money to the very end of her sailing days as stated above. (extract from CarnivalCorporation 4Q 2008 results...
Photograph of the QE2 leaving Lisbon on 29 October 2008. Copyright Luís Miguel Correia