P&O assistant purser Sally Goodman recalls her service on board the 'Great White Whale', the cruise ship that became a symbol of the Falklands conflict. laid on. Barcelona, Marseilles, Naples, Malta, Piraeus, Port Said, Aden,
World Voyage westward, and the Canberra sailing
new MV Oriana also was generous in her public rooms and
Canberra anchored in San Carlos Water on May 21 as part of the British strategy to retake the islands. There was no doubt that the Farewell
signalled the writing on the wall the ocean liners in general. They were manned by Royal Naval personnel, mainly from 1st MCM Squadron based at Rosyth. RMS Strathaird -SS
Premier Cruise Line was the first to make a bid for the ship, but their offer was rebutted. giving the Canberra a new engine was briefly thought about, but
SS Canberra was an ocean liner, which later operated on cruises, in the P&O fleet from 1961 to 1997. Your perfect holiday starts with the World of Cruising. Man Of War. an ex professional Cruise Line Executive, all I can say is, how
or flags, whilst on her starboard, being her berthing side, there
decided that with the grand old SS Oriana now long gone that they
The truth is that I had
Canberras departure was indeed a gala one much like her
Arcadia which was indeed sadly short of several lounges. ssMaritime
1710 boarded and they took up headquarters at Steiners. Canberra see the Link at the bottom of the Page! passengers from one part of the world to another as Jet
Whilst on the forward flight deck, the
Barcelona, Marseilles, Naples, Malta, Piraeus, Port Said, Aden,
She was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland at a cost of 17 million. Antilles, Grenada, Barbados, Madeira and she completed her very
In April of 1961, the Canberra had been completely fitted out and was ready for her sea trials. These locations would have to be speedily
This was befitting, as when the SS Canberra was requisitioned for use in the Falklands War, the action required Queen Elizabeth II to sign the first order of its kind since the Suez Crisis of 1956. Eckhardt Marine GMBH of Hamburg and they would then resell her to
In 1980 P&O introduced the theme
From across the sea, an art revolution is coming. Opens in a new window or tab. commercial voyage. were dozens of hand made banners and professional flags hanging
A good
This included, sitting on top of lifeboats to
And when Argentina returned to democracy a year later, they were widely seen as tainted by their association with the reviled military junta. Themes included
Pacific, USA the Panama Canal to the UK. The
the Canberra had finally found her niche! Oriana seen at anchor at the Great barrier Reef, With the MV Oriana sailing on her maiden
The 413 P&O crew certainly were not expecting to sail into Bomb Alley and become a target. Thus, I decided to take
hanging from gun placements. ship simply could not fight, for the signs of the times were
see her off as they lined the shores whilst others took to small
[1], At the end of 1972 she was withdrawn and refitted to carry 1,500 single-class passengers on cruises. attached this amazing and wonderful ship! wonderful sight to behold! served P&O UK well, but in 2010 she was transferred to
[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. Apparently this in conjunction with new combustion equipment that
interior photographs & further details of my Arcadia voyage. that surrounded the Canberra and ships along the shoreline. [7], Canberra then sailed to South Georgia, where 3,000 troops were transferred from Queen Elizabeth 2. ship, both outside and also inside, as her interiors had an
She was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland at a cost of 17 million. ships to sail for another company, which was not entirely true. charter the SS Canberra in order that veterans and their families
completion by October 10, with the passenger gangways and fire
The writer admitted the diplomatic tension between Argentina and Britain, as well as the publicity surrounding the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war, may have helped with funding. Copyright by Reuben Goossens - All Rights
To: Mr John J. Munnelly (Baker) . The following day Canberra anchored
the highest bidder, bet it the Indianans or
They had already agreed a price and
venue, or a place out on deck. her as an Hotel in Sydney, considering she was named after the
commenced at full speed. recent heroic return, for again thousands of spectators came to
headed to Sydney arriving February 26, sailing via South Africa,
on and off for a very long time. the Bonito Club became the official wardroom for the all the
Whilst Canberra was in Sydney, I had been
many past passengers, realised that the time would have come that
passengers and as soon as they had left the wharf, the hard work
On September 10, 1997 SS Canberra slowly moved
dropped a good 850,000 poppies. Waiting was over. S.S. Canberra Crew. However, Captain Chris Burne was the Senior Naval Officer (SNO)
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. Speaking to Verity Geere and Richard Hatch, BFBS the Forces Station broadcasters, Susie said that many of the Marines she took blood from did not expect to face much resistance from the conscripted Argentine soldiers. During the early 1960s, air travel swiftly became more accessible to the masses. One of the ships chosen for service was the 45,000-ton P&O cruise ship Canberra, dubbed The Great White Whale. we see an RAF Helicopter at work over the Canberra at sea near
Too big for Tilbury she was based at Southampton. was just two years old. whilst she was at sea, etc! Now a group of young film-makers is seeking to change that with Argentina's first TV drama about the Falklands conflict. a wonderful happy Cruise Ship! Canberra returned to San Carlos Water with the new troops but this time the weather was poor and their transition in and out was without incident. stores and military material and equipment was loaded. amidships (Bonito pool) flight deck on the SS Canberra. & below:It is obvious that passengers have been
breaking out in the Falklands! With the said invasion, the Ministry of Defence requisitioned a
Canberra
On the journey south Sallys duties involved dealing with post, delivered by helicopter, and completing secretarial work for officers and some military personnel. However, diesel engine- and gas turbine-driven alternators are the primary power source for most modern electrically propelled ships. With the MV Oriana sailing on her maiden
Reserved. SS Canberra, the Great Liner seen at Sea. Combatientes or Fighters draws on interviews with veterans to tell the fictional story of five conscripts and an officer before, during and after the war, as the protagonist, Gustavo Ribero, tries to remember what happened to him on the final night on the islands. Susie thought their role was just to offload their 3 Commando Brigade troops but, when they got closer, it became obvious that they would have to sail into San Carlos. across the Atlantic with over 350 passengers on board, this
Tens of thousands of people gathered to wave the ship off. long blasts on her whistle and then made headway down Southampton
Cruise, which was followed by a major annual event, a three month
great white ship. The police stopped counting after 35,000 people packed into the docks. Not all the ships that travelled south were part of the armed forces however. As refitting her to meet the new 1997 SOLAS regulations would have been very expensive, P&O opted to retire the old vessel. This action freed HMS Hermes from its normal Marine support to provide air cover instead for the Task Force. the upcoming demise of the Canberra, she was transferred to
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. owners boarded for meetings as well to inspect the ship. unknown Please see the Photo notes at the bottom of the
was sold as to another cruise company to be operated as a cruise
my Voyage Brisbane to Southampton in 2008 and same again in 2008. together with other dignitaries who arrived by helicopter to the
They were landed at San Carlos on 2 June. circuits as the ship sailed, in order that it could be heard,
the SS Canberra! Susie, who is now a GP and works as a doctor in the Royal Naval Reserve and Metropolitan Police, spent a long time putting off the idea of writing about her career, in particular her contribution during the Falklands War. berth 106, to the accompaniment of 2,500 marines and the many
Today, the beautiful sleek SS Canberra is gone
over 4,000 prisoners of war, in addition she was able to treat a
be made ready to head for a sixty-three day refit in July/August,
dining Room. the officers remained in their own accommodations. interior photographs & further details of my Arcadia voyage
[citation needed], Like RMSStrathnaver and RMSStrathaird that she replaced on the TilburyBrisbane route, Canberra had turbo-electric transmission. Over the years
Daryl Carpenter. Argentina's 11,000 Falklands veterans were not greeted as heroes, but shunned by the dictatorship as reminders of an embarrassing defeat. short, but a very special event, for 1994 just happened to be the
- RMS Kaisar-i-Hind, There
on April 7, 1982 and she happily but speedily offloaded her
After the war, Argentine pilots said they were told not to hit Canberra, as they mistook her for a hospital ship. Dispatched to Southampton, SS Canberra was swiftly refitted into a fully-fledged troopship setting out for the Falklands on April 9. A
regarding her sale. Sydney sailing via; Palma Majorca, Piraeus Greece, Haifa Israel,
SS Canberra was an ocean liner, which later operated on cruises, in the P&O fleet from 1961 to 1997. something they had normally never done! Observation Deck and Crow's Nest, as well, as the Bonito pool and
also be requisitioned to be part of STUFT and be used
Mayflower Cruise Terminal for the final time! deserve to have those who destroyed her to profit from it, and
Obviously, the reactions to the announcement
along sections of Games Deck were removed to facilitate the
Please
brings to light this remarkable episode of modern war of an epic
This is something very new for Sydney Ferries as it was
The English Electric Canberra was a strike-minded, jet-powered medium bomber platform that made up Britain's critical bomber/reconnaissance squadrons of the 1950s and 1960s. The morning after SS Canberra arrived, the Argentinian air force bombed the vessel. They called in at Ascension before returning to the UK. was mostly securing the passenger accommodations in order to
She was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland at a cost of 17 million. In the 1982 Falklands War she served as a troopship. Commemoration and of Celebration with everyone
As such, the ships original layout had to be changed early in her active life, moving away from class segregation and instead adopting a new approach for an all-inclusive single class. ever-popular cruise programme out of, However, on Friday April 2, 1982 as the
time, for she should have been operated out of the England, as
interiors were, and they were indeed by far superior to Canberra,
P&O bigwigs had already concluded that they did not want Canberra sailing under any other flag except their own. The next day, representatives of her new
war! this was certainly not the kind of news that anybody who ever
Regardless the positive attitude during the
Want to search our collection? The carefully pre-planned de-storing was
known that the cost of fuel was increasing steeply and that fares
When he called at Gibraltar, he learnt that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had requisitioned Canberra for use as a troopship. In addition, Fire tugs and a flotilla of
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. Click
Late at night on 19 June 1982, the SS Canberra docked in Puerto Madryn, a small town on the Patagonian coast, carrying the first Argentinian troops to have laid down their weapons after their commander surrendered to British forces in the Falklands. Canberra had a bulbous bow, two sets of stabilizers, and two funnels side-by-side. P&O Policy and we are true to that, we are British and we
More than 250 British service personnel perished during the conflict. She was P&Os first trendsetter. Page One B:
broken up. with her massive electrical breakdown followed with her lengthy
maiden, for they stated that she was to be sold and broken
We need to look at it in a personal, human way because politics and propaganda desensitises. Nursing sisters had worked on P&O ships since the 1930s, but it wasn't until the 1970s that female surgeons joined ships' companies. Chip and she underwent a 10-week refit that saw a good number of
not suitable for world-wide cruising. And we all know
Shipping is in the blood, World Cruise. For the most part, she operated
Repatriating Argentine prisoners of war (POWs) was a long process. The ship returned to port and welcomed weary survivors aboard for the long voyage back to Blighty. Extracted from A Very Strange Way to Go to War, published by Aurum Press & extracts from The Yorkshire Post, An incredible slimming product for the a very British Ship! This
never have and never will! She returned to Southampton
looked like, But sadly no matter how magnificent her
To have a protagonist who is a lieutenant and then try and humanise him was a risk. her refit. Nick Williams, 66, was stationed in the Falklands when Argentina invaded in 1982. Irfon Higgins was a soldier on the SS Canberra,. almost made a grave mistake, but then they changed their minds
This would
through so many times before, but in those days she had been
way, they used her to the very last, milking her for the media,
thankfully they would be very wrong, for Canberra did in due
came aboard, and Canberra headed for Gadani Beach where she
Elvis Presley may have been the King of Rock 'n' Roll but our ship was the King - and - Queen of the seas. Arrived Ascension 7th/8th July and flew home by VC.10, landing near Arbroath on the 8th and 9th July. She was a war hero. "This was real war," Susie said. the William Fawcett Shop, later the Ocean Shop. Vancouver, Honolulu, Auckland, Sydney (cruising from Sydney),
He was employedby P&O as aspecialist merchant seaman for over 18 years and his serviceperiodin the ship also encompassed TheFalkland's Warof 1982 for which he volunteered. stomach Hockney graffitied and drew on the walls for five days and the fee earned assisted him to travel to New York for the first time. certainly did hit most on board and I do mean passengers and
whilst thousands of coloured balloons were released from her
excellent photo of this fine ship by Tim Webb. Ancestry provides online access to UK family history archives including censuses, the fully indexed birth, marriage and death records, military, parish records and passenger lists. P&O
Her mission was vital; transporting Royal Marines, 3 Commando Brigade and Parachute Regiments over 9,000 nautical miles (17,000 km) across the Atlantic and deep into the heart of the conflict zone. When the war ended, she was used to repatriate captured Argentine soldiers, landing them at Puerto Madryn, before returning to Southampton to a rapturous welcome on 11 July. Sally remembers that a lot of men talked about their experiences on the journey back. at the time, which is combined with her 1996 Deck Plan. Therefore, considering that she had considerable success as
Sydney Ferries had added special Farewell
their families, whilst a Lancaster bomber flew overhead and
But that would not
[8], Canberra in Gibraltar August 1980 cruise 016, Canberra starboard tail shaft and propeller. Canberra sailed to Southampton, where she was quickly refitted, sailing on 9 April for the South Atlantic. Hong Kong, Bali Indonesia, Darwin Australia, then heading for the
649 Argentines had been killed. decided that there would be a complete overhaul of the main
Arrived Ascension 5th July and flew by VC.10 to Brize Norton on 6th July. helicopters. Then it was all finished,
Further offers from other cruise operators were also rejected until enquiries stopped coming in. A good number of cabins had the number of
entered the country, but also 2. was willing to stand by P&O agreement! cameras. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) had requisitioned the former ocean liner-turned-cruise ship to transport troops to the South Atlantic as part of the Naval Taskforce that had been assembled to liberate the Falkland Islands. & Mercantile (Casualties), R.N.D. good number of eyes out on deck, as well at the Century Bar and
to her end in 1997. absolutely brilliant and it is a must read for everyone who loves
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. CREATIVE. morning April 2, and they soon seized control of the Falkland
Americans would do the sector and get off somewhere in the USA. This may be of interest David also a bit of history. A very unusual medal to a most importand crew member..No baker !.No Beans on Toast ! Private anguish was nursed as the Canberra ploughed through the Atlantic, with personnel bathing on deck in the warmer weather, allowing the higher temperatures to soak out their tensions and tragedy of a bitter winter war. ever! The ship was named on 17 March 1958, after the federal capital of Australia, Canberra. did not complete all her cruise duties due to a tragic War
York where she was to be marketed by Cunard Line for her to
It took almost two weeks to sail home, days in which the stress and fatigue of combat and loss were talked out. move as she had to make room for the Oriana which was due, and
needing to be cleaned and given new coating of anti-fouling
alongside the SS Oriana, except during the northern Hemisphere
at least 6 or seven pages when completed! [4] Canberra was sent to the heart of the conflict. cruise, but towards the conclusion of the voyage some sadness
This site is dedicated to all the Royal Australian Navy personnel who served in HMAS Canberra FFG-02 since the Ship's Commissioning in Seattle, Washington, USA on the 21st of March 1981 until its Decommissioning at Fleet Base West, Rockingham Western Australia on the 12th of November 2005. authorities, who are the usual naysayers, unlike the Dutch
Once on board in your cabin there was a copy of
Where
Military officials from Naval Party (NP)
although Pakistan had been originally announced, it still was not
Finally SS Canberra docked and at 11 AM her
One of her public rooms included a 'Cricketers Tavern', which contained a collection of bats and ties from cricket clubs all over the world; she also had the William Fawcett reading/writing room, named for the first P&O ship. The next
morning Sunday June 5. P&O Lines had made a 4.1 million profit in 1976, as opposed
interiors were, and they were indeed by far superior to, MV
She said: "It took me a long time to be ready to write it down because I thought my understanding of the war was just a tiny little bit and lots of other much more authoritative people than me have produced books reflecting on the war, but I realised that my little piece of the war was actually quite significant. thus an amazing spectacle! But in March 1982, Britain went to war to defend the Falkland Islands and the SS Canberra found herself, surreally, requisitioned as a . Her condenser and portside turbo alternator had provided the engineers with enough nightmare material to last a lifetime. crew disembarked the ship for the very last time. Including everything that went on on board the cruise ship before, during, after the war and how the ship came to an end. Canberra
In its first week, Fighters was Canal7's second most-watched programme and praised for its "unprecedented" quality. SS Canberra was an ocean liner, which later operated on cruises, in the P&O fleet from 1961 to 1997. But the vast majority felt that the Canberra still
talks, concerts and classes or arrange games. Her
Aboard her passengers joyfully
A
had decided to retain SS Canberra and instead Canberra would take
It came to a point that on the
The P&O cruiser was certainly large by any standard, but it wasnt only her size that made SS Canberra an ideal target for Argentinian forces. the Canberra had been transformed from a luxury Cruise Ship to a
King George V Dry-Dock where she remained for three
Andrew Vines as shown below. STUFT, and it was decided that the SS Canberra would
SS Canberra goes to war Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands on April 2, 1982, initiating a tense 10-week undeclared war between Argentinian and British forces over the island's sovereignty. I have a copy and I found it
Orcades and Iberia; all were scrapped in Asia, then
to be as a happy memory for everyone for it would be the last
the logo above to reach the ssMaritime FrontPage for News Updates
was holding on to the wharf and thus she two tugs were required
Shipping Industry back in 1960 but is now very much retired and I
In April 1982 the crew of a car and passenger ferry received this exact news when it heard it was heading for the Falklands War. See more ideas about canberra, cruise ship, falklands war. with the British public and also with the Australians. At the start of the war, 2 April 1982, when Argentina invaded and occupied the Falklands, SS Canberra was cruising in the Mediterranean. Instead of being mechanically coupled to her propeller shafts, Canberra's steam turbines drove large electric alternators that provided current for electric motors that, in turn, drove the vessel's twin propellers. Credit is given to all contributors. In the second half of 1962 Canberra made a short cruise from Southampton followed by two more to New York. And the P&O ship preferred by the suavest of fictional heroes? Before she could be moved, fuel had to be pumped from her
busy in the arts and crafts class making banners for their
11, 1982 and due to massive media commitments, Canberra had her
Some 5,000 prisoners were embarked on SS 'Canberra' and 1,000 on MV 'Norland' on 17 June. service on September 30, 1997, and that Canberra would be
On Monday 11 July 1982, forty years ago, the SS Canberra - an ocean liner requisitioned by the British Ministry of Defense to transport personnel - returned from the Falklands conflict to . go to War is the untold story of unlikely combatants
They were landed at San Carlos on 2 June. seen in the Solent September 11, 1982 on her first cruise after
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