TIFU by thinking Queen Mary referred to a queen and not a ship

I’m currently studying Mass Communications as my minor in college. In news editing today, we covered headline writing. An assignment I received today requires me to write a headline for a story given just a shorter headline or slug.

The first question’s slug said “Queen Mary having bottom scraped.” I see “Queen” and think this is an actual Queen getting some routine medical procedure (what the doctors were screening for I couldn’t deduce). In reality, the Queen Mary refers to a famous ship.

I wrote the headline, “Queen Mary undergoing medical procedure Tuesday,” and when the professor started asking for responses, I raised my hand. Hilarity ensued.

What’s worse is that there was a Mac right in front of me that I had not used to check who or what Queen Mary is.

Barnacles!

TL;DR The Queen Mary being a ship is apparently common knowledge, except for me, who found out the hard (and hilarious) way while writing headlines about it.