Farewell Canberra DvdA Glorious Goodbye - The Last Triumphant Year.Last World Cruise - Last Cruise – Farewell.Amateur Footage.A nostalgic farewell to ‘Canberra’, the last of the line.Launched in 1960, ‘Canberra’ made her maiden voyage in June 1961.She was primarily conceived as a passenger liner, primarily destined for the Southampton to Sydney route, but by the time of her launch the merger between P&O and the Orient line was well established as the P&O Orient Line.From 1983 Canberra’s role was purely cruising, based in Southampton, until she was taken up as a troopship for the Falklands war. It was in that conflict that she acquired the nickname ‘The Great White Whale’.She returned to cruising shortly afterwards until her last cruise in 1997, when she was sold for scrapping in Pakistan.Approx. 60 minutes.
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