Canberra Cruise Ship

Canberra was part of the PO Cruises fleet until 1997 when she was sent to a scrapyard in Pakistan.

Canberra cruise ship. This picture was taken in 1978 while Savile was a VIP guest on the luxury liner SS Canberra. Canberra cruise ship has 1142 members. The SS Oriana did certainly become one of my greatly loved ships as I sailed on her many times as I did on the Canberra.

Canberra was launched by Dame Pattie Menzies wife of the Australian Prime Minister on March 16 1960 and the ship arrived in Southampton for the first time in the May of the following year. She was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast Northern Ireland at a cost of 17000000. SS Canberra was an ocean liner which later operated on cruises in the PO fleet from 1961 to 1997.

At 45270 gross tons she was the largest ship built there. They had to take the fuel off to get her afloat again. Initially named PITTSBURGH but later renamed CANBERRA the ship was commissioned as a BALTIMORE - class heavy gun cruiser.

PO 197273 Sailing Schedule for the SS Canberra. Two passengers on the PO fleet flagship told an officer Savile had behaved inappropriately with their. She was back in her old role in September 1982 and continued sailing from Southampton or Sydney.

SS Canberra was one of the first cruise ships that ignited many British cruisers love of cruise holidays. In 1974 however Canberra underwent a major refit in which she was permanently converted into a one-class ship more in keeping with her developing role as a cruise ship. Canberra was our second cruise and despite the age of the ship we loved the cruise which was to the Canaries.

Theme cruises were introduced to great acclaim - profits soared and everyone was happy. Bad language or comments of a personal nature will not be tolerated. Work was started on her in September 1957 at the Harland Wolff yards in.