Canberra Cruise Ship Scrapping

SS Canberra was one of the first cruise ships that ignited many British cruisers love of cruise holidays.

Canberra cruise ship scrapping. Crown Cruise Line owned 5 ships - Viking Princess 19642015-scrapped as Palm Beach Princess Crown Del Mar 19672005-sunk Crown Monarch 1990now Vidanta Elegant Crown Jewel 1992now Gemini and Crown Dynasty 1993now. This picture was taken in. On 30th September 1997 Canberra completed her final cruise and made her homecoming into the port of Southampton to another tumultuous welcome.

SATOSHI PACIFIC DAWN SENT TO SCRAP. Surrounded by private boats and pleasure-craft she was given the rare honour of a Royal Navy escort while in a final gesture of recognition from the RAF there were fly-pasts by the Red Arrows and from a lone Canberra Bomber. Rather than scrap the Canberra PO refitted her with a casino and transformed into a cruise ship.

SS Canberra was an ocean liner which later operated on cruises in the PO fleet from 1961 to 1997. The ship was named on 17 March 1958 after the federal capital of Australia CanberraShe was launched on 16 March 1960 sponsored by Dame Pattie Menzies wife of the then Prime Minister of. In 1997 I was working at a power station in Pakistan.

A timely boost to stirling inspired British holiday makers to book cruises places. The third ship of the pioneering Royal Viking Line spent many years as a German cruise ship named Albatros and just recently was also sold for scrap. In 1997 she made a last voyage before scrapping.

SS Norway - Final Chapter. HighSeas Ltd said the cruise ship would be used as a floating hotel in Dubai. Decommissioned in 1947 the CANBERRA was reclassified CAG 2 in January 1952 and subsequently underwent conversion to a guided missile heavy cruise at New York Shipbuilding Corp Camden NJ.

Norway will never sail again it was announced on March 23rd 2004 by NCL Chief Executive Colin Veitch. Apparently Canberra had a scrap value of around 600000 but she would fetch a considerable amount more if she was sold as to another cruise company to be operated as a cruise ship but PO refused this option. After being decommissioned she was purchased by a Pakistani ship breaker for 280 m million rupees 63 m million.