Name Canberra
Launched 16 March 1960
Length 820 feet (250 m) Beam 103 feet (31 m) Draught 35.5 feet (10.8 m)
Namesake City of Canberra, Australia
Sponsored by Dame Pattie Menzies, GBE
Owner
Completed May 1961
Propulsion
1961–88: Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. 1988–91: P&O Lines (Shipowners) Ltd. 1991–97: Abbey National March Leasing (1) Ltd. (leased back by P&O)
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Maiden voyage 2 June 1961
Main: Two British Thomson-Houston (AEI) synchronous three-phase, 6,000-volt air-cooled electric motors providing 85,000 hp (63,000 kW); power supplied by two 32,200 kW steam turbine-driven alternators; twin screws Auxiliary: Four steam turbines, each driving a 1,500 kW, 440 V, 3 Phase, 60 Hz alternator and a tandem-driven 300 kW exciter for the propulsion alternators
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Out of service 10–31 October 1997 (final voyage) Identification
Operator
Call sign: GBVC
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1961–66: P&O–Orient Lines
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IMO number: 5059953
1966–71: P&O Lines
1971–86: P&O Passenger Division 1986–92: Canberra Cruises Ltd. 1992–94: P&O Cruise Fleets Services Ltd. 1994–97: P&O Cruises (UK) Ltd.
official number 302649 Nickname(s) The Great White Whale
Speed
Honours and awards Falklands War
Port of registry London
Trials: 29.27 knots (54.2 km/h) 1961–73: 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h)
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Route Southampton–Sydney via Suez, thence Sydney–Vancouver (1973, Cruising)
Fate Scrapped at Gadani ship-breaking yard, Pakistan, 1997–98
1973–97: 23.50 knots (43.5 km/h) Capacity 150,000 square feet (14,000 m 2 ) of cargo
Ordered 20 December 1956 Builder Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Type Ocean Liner
Complement 1961–73: 548 first class, 1,690 tourist class, 1973–97: 1,500 one class
Tonnage 1961: 45,270 gross register tons1962: 45,733 gross register tons
Cost GB£17 million (1956) Yard number 1621
Crew 1961–73: 900, 1973–97: 795
Laid down 23 September 1957
1968: 44,807 gross register tons 1994: 49,073 gross tons
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