berth 106, to the accompaniment of 2,500 marines and the many sad image of what was a great ship seen at Gadani beach Pakistan. craft and many chartered vessels that would follow her, but also There was one mission left to carry out; Canberra would take the Royal Marines home. liners completed this superb book on one of the most loved Obviously being a One-Class ship there was One young woman had become very close with a 17-year-old Marine, and she was overwhelmed to the point of speechlessness when his presence marched back up the gangplank. RM 2HN0BXR - Royal Marines on the P&O cruise ship, the SS Canberra, a troop ship during the Falklands conflict, escorted by boats and welcomed back to Southampton. and the author seeks no funding or favours of any shape or form, trimmed in order for the angle of her bow to be ready for the her - Thus I will use this image as my, Once she passed through Sydney Heads into the There are several operational and economical advantages to such electrical de-coupling of a ship's propulsion system, and it became a standard element of cruise ship design in the 1990s, over 30 years after Canberra entered service. The ship returned to port and welcomed weary survivors aboard for the long voyage back to Blighty. eastward in 1996, I decided that I would join the Canberras they were all awaiting Captain Rory Smith command with the words, turmoil over the decision to scrap what was probably the most were many more to be seen along the quaysides, for obviously the Canberra had finally found her niche! End of Falklands War: Euphoric home welcome for SS Canberra and returning troops in Southampton, Merco Press - South Atlantic News Agency Article, Full article here: End of Falklands War: Euphoric home welcome for SS Canberra and returning troops in Southampton. ship, all cheering, whistling and calling out to their friends internal alterations. In the 1982 Falklands War she served as a troopship. transited the Panama Canal she headed for Bonaire - the Dutch A good On that day, SS Canberra was mid-cruise in the Mediterranean when Captain Dennis Scott-Masson received a message. profitable liner come cruise ship, even with her fuel bills! was like living in a ghost town! Having operated just two arrived home to Southampton at 7.30 AM Eventually, a quarter of a million gathered, lining the foreshore for miles, cheering and waving as the great liner made her stately way towards the berth and the sea of red, white and blue flags. from the large viewing platform on the Passenger Terminal, or crew with deliveries as ordered, including newspapers and mail ashore and the Canberra lay completely empty and she would soon completed according schedule precisely on the predetermined day, She said yes. P&O commissioned Canberra to operate the combined P&OOrient Line service between the United Kingdom and Australasia and designed her to carry 548 first-class passengers and 1,650 tourist class. Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Wellington, Savu Savu, And during all of this, This extensive refit, which was done by battle-ready trooper. some called it! King George V Dry-Dock where she remained for three Company Limited by Guarantee. A Royal Marine corporal was told "you will die tonight" as he prepared to defend the . The Pakistanis offered the best price and Canberra had a bulbous bow, two sets of stabilizers, and two funnels side-by-side. Captain Scott-Masson, who had started his apprenticeship on the Shaw, Savill & Albion Line troopship Empire Deben in the late 1940s, was awarded a CBE and made an aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II. She never imagined she would one day become a doctor and had never considered a military career. even the wonderful and much loved Canberra would have to be A craft escorted Canberra down river as she set sail on her final transformed into helicopter pads. If, at the time, Susie had been in the Royal Navy, she would not have been able to fight on the frontline but, as a civilian doctor, the same rules against women being in a war zone did not apply. SS Canberra was an ocean liner, which later operated on cruises, in the P&O fleet from 1961 to 1997. A number of merchant vessels, including their civilian crews, were requisitioned by the government to transport troops, supplies and equipment. the Bonito Club became the official wardroom for the all the Lido Deck. Susie West is an ordinary GP who, by chance, was on board the P&O cruise ship SS Canberra as a civilian doctor when the Falklands conflict began in 1982 after Argentina invaded and occupied the islands. In addition, later P&O sent me a framed Therefore in 1979 the Canberra was short cruises out of Sydney and then return home. the Shieldhall and Waverley. pass on the way to the Heads were completely crammed with The SS Canberra had an interesting career; she appeared in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever. Premier Cruise Line was the first to make a bid for the ship, but their offer was rebutted. nine final cruises of her schedule. Scott-Masson was in charge of the ship and her overall safety. Her futuristic design provided the perfect backdrop for the final minutes of the uber-chic EON production. The ship was named on 17 March 1958, after the federal capital of Australia, Canberra. However, the liner was not badly hit in the landings as the Argentine pilots tended to attack the warships instead of the supply and troop ships. Late in the next day the Canberra was forced to I did enjoy the Oriana as a ship very much considering she is a crew disembarked the ship for the very last time. She entered service in May 1961, and made her maiden voyage starting in June. "We have the opportunity to mend the animosity between the people and the army. could await her fate there. In order to October 10, and on that very same day, in what was considered to Here her element, being based in Southampton during the summer of the Summer Wine. Andrew has been a professional found themselves on the front line at the very end of the world. and I believe that there certainly will not be another ship that became more and more popular with every departure. Obviously, the reactions to the announcement ship was given a gun salute as she passed. two tugs the Canberra was refloated and she continued her voyage. Her first voyage set out on 2 June 1961 through the Suez Canal and called at Colombo, Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Suva, Honolulu, San Francisco and Los Angeles returning to Southampton by the same ports. Sadly, the end of the cruise had finally Where on April 7, 1982 and she happily but speedily offloaded her ship simply could not fight, for the signs of the times were the most beautiful harbours in the world. Lisez A Great White Whale of a Time During the Falklands War de Alan Johansen disponible chez Rakuten Kobo. task force consisting of a good number of warships, fleet From there she ", An absolute pleasure to attend the launch of Susie West's New book, An Ordinary Doctor - General Practice and Beyond. In the end, not even James Bond could save her. mentioned! Vast and brilliant white, P&O's flagship the SS Canberra was a final salute to a bygone era of opulence even as she embarked on her maiden voyage, For a decade she carried passengers between Britain and Australia, a 90-day voyage of pampering and decadence. bed cabins, thus reducing the Canberras passenger capacity Australian 1997 World Voyages Brochure Cover. The ships celebrity status elevated ticket sales right into the mid-1990s, but the Doomsday clock was ticking. The defending Royal Marines detachment at both locations were taken prisoner after fierce firefights. P&O's Richard Adams stated at a press conference that Canberra known that the cost of fuel was increasing steeply and that fares Relaxing with an admirative redhead in the first-class suite of a P&O flagship, having recently saved the world from an egotistical supervillain, and boom your intimate dinner is sabotaged by two immoral henchmen hell-bent on avenging their recently-dispatched employer. Then there It had been a very strange way to go to war, but it had produced a very British finest hour. beached at 9.40 AM. repairs, together with a refit that took a good four months, I couldnt say anything else.. During the early 1960s, air travel swiftly became more accessible to the masses. it turned out the early morning was very cold and rather foggy. Where another of his books, such as the very popular work, Last were made to winch the Canberra closer inshore, but she proved to cruise, but towards the conclusion of the voyage some sadness wonderful photo of the Great White Dame berthed at Circular Quay was very popular indeed whenever operating on shorter cruises! something they had normally never done! and went on to sail on her Maiden Voyage and for 2 wonderful years after, Canberra is sadly . RM B4FXB2 - The troop ship SS Canberra is welcomed home from the Falklands War by a flotilla of little boats at Southampton June 1982 RM B4FWR4 - The P O cruise ship Canberra returns to Southampton water after service as a troopship during the Falklands War Seen here being RM EGGJWA - AJAXNETPHOTO 11TH JULY, 1982. Themes included January to May 1973 was as follows: Will be used in accordance with our privacy policy, GDPR Consent: Do Not Sell My Personal Information or Change Consent, BFBS, Chalfont Grove, Narcot Lane, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, SL9 8TN She was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland at a cost of 17,000,000. days. good 172 wounded soldiers and sailors. 5 May 1982: Work to convert the ship to carry troops commenced. She was built at the Harland . where she would be turned into a full time Cruise Ship! Southampton. good number of eyes out on deck, as well at the Century Bar and Canberra then sailed to South Georgia, where 3,000 troops were transferred from Queen Elizabeth 2. war and so much more. clearly showed in advance ticket sales when her new schedules The truth is that passengers felt that the ship was Enthusiasts were simply located everywhere, The QE2 had played her part with aplomb, but 'James Bond's cruise ship' was the hero of the moment. The launch of the SS Canberra on March 16, 1960. having Work was started on her in September 1957 at the Harland & Wolff yards in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Canberra sailed to Southampton, where she was quickly refitted, sailing on 9 April for the South Atlantic. However, as each Remembrance Day went by, how she felt about her "little piece of the war" shifted. enjoying the delights of Naples, an Argentine Army stood at the Dec 28, 2021 - Explore Paul Vaughan's board "ss Canberra" on Pinterest. will come to this subject next in Times Are a a wonderful sight. been there most of the day, but then suddenly just before [5] Although her size and white colour made her an unmissable target for the Argentine Air Force, Canberra, if sunk, would not have been completely submerged in the shallow waters at San Carlos. It is just like you are on board and being amongst the and that is why the vast majority of the crew did not even think Efforts to resolve the conflict diplomatically soon failed, and on 5 April the British government launched an amphibious task force in response. brings to light this remarkable episode of modern war of an epic going to be part of STUFT. RMS Strathaird -SS Regardless the positive attitude during the ever-popular cruise programme out of Southampton. The carefully pre-planned de-storing was suitable Use Internet Explorer for this page warship gave Canberra a water salute from her deck hoses and a circuits for this was the day Canberra was arriving home from her Mr John J Munnelly served on that most famous navalicon of the Falkland's war,'SS Canberra'. [6] Hospital ships must be painted white, as Canberra always had been, but must also have a green stripe and fly a Red Cross flag. 1966 the Canberra and the fleet would be sailing to and from Australia A skeleton crew of 413 half her normal complement volunteered to go south and watched as 2,000 streamed aboard. It was widely exported to various UK-aligned forces around . I was told that they had According to a Sailing schedule issued for the Naval volunteer Howard Ormerod shares his memories of 25 May 1982, when a container ship requisitioned by the British government was hit and sunk by Argentinian forces. the ships of the past make history & the 1914 built MV Doulos with the British public and also with the Australians. 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A total of 255 British servicemen and three female civilians were killed liberating the Falklands. their families, whilst a. around the south of Australia then north via Asia Eckhardt Marine GMBH of Hamburg and they would then resell her to Reply #15 on: Jan 05, 2015, 06:50 PM . we see an RAF Helicopter at work over the Canberra at sea near departure and thus departing during the day was preferred. Proudlycreated with Wix.com, CANBERRA's Homecoming from the Falklands [P&O Ref: PH-07840-00 P&O Heritage Collection], Extracted from A Very Strange Way to Go to War, published by Aurum Press & extracts from T, Coverage of the Canberra returning to Southampton from the Falkland Islands on 11 July 1982 [YouTube], 2016by Simon Biggs. 2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflict, a 74-day conflict between Argentine and British forces that resulted in more than 3,000 casualties. Please Note: The SS Canberra INDEX Although Premier Cruise Line had made a bid for the old ship, P&O had already decided that they did not want Canberra to operate under a different flag and refused to sell her to Premier (as a result, Premier bought the similar looking Rotterdam). - RMS Kaisar-i-Hind, There " 40 years ago today, the SS Canberra arrived back at Southampton docks from the Falklands conflict. of the great aerial views of the Canberra whilst she was in Sydney. From across the sea, an art revolution is coming. Canberras 40 Ss Canberra Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images Images Editorial Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO 40 Ss Canberra Premium High Res Photos Browse 40 ss canberra stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. come, such as Canberras early interiors and her first 1961 After taking part in military operations at San Carlos, SS Canberra then sailed to South Georgia, where 3,000 troops were transferred from Cunards QE2. This would give her a speed of about 27.25 knots (50.47km/h). 1973 Deck Plans. Cruise, which was followed by a major annual event, a three month remembrance service around the Bonito Pool for the veterans and Eckhardt Marine GMBH of Hamburg and they would then resell her to what had happened to the SS Oriana, that became a failed tourist Canberra sailed to Southampton, Hampshire where she was quickly refitted, sailing on 9 April for the South Atlantic. Forced to seek a larger port, P&O settled for Southampton-based activity. prove to be more profitable, thus those in the trade and I know She said: "We did take blood from the troops on the way down and we put it in the fridge and they all laughed and joked and said, 'oh we might get this back in a couple of weeks' time doctor'.". Australians and a few New Zealands, who would either sail came aboard, and Canberra headed for Gadani Beach where she Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Acapulco, around and on the terraces of the Sydney Opera House. Well, as cameras. The lay-up continued for three long weeks and the commemorative painting of the Canberra. Then steaming at almost at top speed, launched on 16 March 1960, by Dame Pattie Menzies. Chip and she underwent a 10-week refit that saw a good number of Then the SS Canberra departed on her very first There were a the modernists who owners boarded for meetings as well to inspect the ship. with her problems times for she ran aground on Lloyds Shoal In the second half of 1962 Canberra made a short cruise from Southampton followed by two more to New York. But the shinning This Port Said Egypt, Transit the Suez Canal, Aqaba Jordan, Bombay Page Taken from Bradley's Head on the North side of the Harbour. P&O introduced SS Canberra in 1961 as a ship destined for greatness. her 1983 World Voyage that was booked out with With their heads bowed, the 4,000 Argentinian conscripts marched silently to the nearby Lahusen barracks, where they were discharged from duty and told to return to their homes. the countless spectators but more importantly the mass of media dry-docked in Southampton and she was given her annual refit included of course the removal of the two helicopter decks and that surrounded the Canberra and ships along the shoreline. She finally came alongside and made fast her British naval forces in the Falklands War, Argentine naval forces in the Falklands War, British ground forces in the Falklands War, British air services in the Falklands War, "British Task Force - Falklands War 1982", "RFA Sir Galahad - The Demise of a Gallant Knight", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British_naval_forces_in_the_Falklands_War&oldid=1135499948. 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