The Queens Gambit

The Hogwarts Champions are transported to each school on a ship called The Queens Gambit, an old steam ship from the early 1900’s. Apparently, the Wizard World managed to ‘borrow’ the ship in 1912 using an incredibly complex set of disillusionment charms, and memory modifications to trick the Muggles into thinking that the ship had struck an iceberg and sunk. The Minister for Magic at the time sank a smaller ship in the same spot, and transfigured it to look like the much larger one that had been carrying some 3,000 people on board, with nearly half of them being wizards. As the Muggles were rescued, The Queens Gambit sailed silently on to New York, before making its return to the docks in Liverpool.