{"id":28317,"date":"2021-08-19T18:04:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T16:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=28317"},"modified":"2021-08-27T20:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T18:20:55","slug":"canberra-1961-history-15","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=28317","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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                                    History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/td>LOI<\/td><\/tr>
1956<\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
23\/9\/1957<\/td>Building started<\/td><\/tr>
23\/9\/1959<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
16\/3\/1960<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
29\/4\/1961<\/td>Sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
18\/5\/1961<\/td>Second sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
19\/5\/1961<\/td>Delivered to Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. , London, UK<\/td><\/tr>
2\/6\/1961<\/td>Southampton -Gibraltar – Napoli – Colombo – Fremantle – Melbourne – Sydney – Auckland – Suva – Honolulu – San Francisco – Los Angeles route.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/11\/1962<\/td>Collision with barge in San Francisco<\/td><\/tr>
1962<\/td>Problems with boilers and electrical systems.<\/td><\/tr>
21\/6\/1962<\/td>29 day overhaul . Some modifications made in public areas.<\/td><\/tr>
7\/1962<\/td>7-days cruise to Gibraltar and Madeira<\/td><\/tr>
8\/1962<\/td>Trans Atlantic voyages , first time in 100 years P&O ship visited New York.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/11\/1962<\/td>Back to Australian service.<\/td><\/tr>
14\/1\/1963<\/td>Spend many months in repairing at Southampton and Belfast.<\/td><\/tr>
24\/5\/1963<\/td>Back to Australian service.<\/td><\/tr>
1960\u00b4s and early 70\u00b4s<\/td>Some short cruises in Australia.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/1972<\/td>Cruises around the World<\/td><\/tr>
24\/1\/1973<\/td>Cruises from New York. Cancelled after two cruises.<\/td><\/tr>
20\/3\/1973<\/td>Laid up at Cape Fear river, North Carolina<\/td><\/tr>
1\/6\/1973<\/td>Back in cruising<\/td><\/tr>
15\/7\/1973<\/td>She ran aground on Lloyd\u2019s Shoal near St. George in Grenada.<\/td><\/tr>
14\/8\/1973<\/td>She ran aground on US Virgin Islands.<\/td><\/tr>
1973<\/td>Rebuild to one class cruise ship.<\/td><\/tr>
1974<\/td>Cruising around the World. Take over ss. Orsova cruise program on 1974.<\/td><\/tr>
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1979<\/td>Drydocking , newmore fuel economical propellers installed.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/4\/1982<\/td>Charter to British Navy<\/td><\/tr>
9\/4\/1982<\/td>Used as troopship on Falklands war.<\/td><\/tr>
11\/7\/1982<\/td>Arrived back to Southampton.<\/td><\/tr>
7\/1982<\/td>Drydocking, refurbished<\/td><\/tr>
11\/9\/1982<\/td>First cruise after war duties.<\/td><\/tr>
1988<\/td>Owner P&O Lines Ltd. London, UK.<\/td><\/tr>
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1991<\/td>Owner Abbey National March Leasing (1) Ltd. , London, UK.<\/td><\/tr>
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10-30\/9\/1977<\/td>Final cruise Southampton – Gibraltar – Haifa – Istanbul – Piraeus – Napoli – Santa Margherita – Cannes – Palma – Southampton route.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/10\/1997<\/td>Sold to scrap<\/td><\/tr>
31\/10\/1997<\/td>Arrived to GM Brothers, Gadani Beach, Pakistan.<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Scrapped.<\/td><\/tr>
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Back to Ship                                     History LOI 1956 Building contract 23\/9\/1957 Building started 23\/9\/1959 Keel laid 16\/3\/1960 Launch 29\/4\/1961 Sea trial 18\/5\/1961 Second sea trial 19\/5\/1961 Delivered to Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. , London, UK 2\/6\/1961 Southampton -Gibraltar … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":28275,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28317","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28317"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28327,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28317\/revisions\/28327"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}