CANBERRA
...shown here on Waitemata Harbour Auckland

NZ11:38 PM 1/21/2013

IMO - 5059953

Name: Canberra

Namesake: City of Canberra, Australia

Owner: P&O Orient Line

Port of registry: Southampton, Great Britain

Ordered: 20 December 1956

Builder: Harland and Wolff, Belfast

Cost: £16 million

Laid down: 23 September 1957

Launched: 16 March 1960

Sponsored by: Dame Pattie Menzies, GBE

Maiden voyage: 2 June 1961

Out of service: 10–31 October 1997 (final voyage)

Nickname: The Great White Whale

Honours and
awards: Falklands Conflict

Fate: Scrapped in 1997

General characteristics
Tonnage: 1961: 45,270 gross tons

1962: 45,733

1968: 44,807

1994: 49,073

Length: 249.9 m (818 ft)

Beam: 31.2 m (102 ft)

Draught: 9.97 m (32.7 ft)

Propulsion: Main: Two British Thompson Houston (AEI) synchronous three-phase,

6,000 volt air-cooled electric motors providing 85,000 horsepower (63,000 kW); power

supplied by two 32,200 kW steam turbine driven alternators; twin propeller
Auxiliary: Four steam turbines, each driving a 1,500 kW, 440 V, 3 Phase, 60 Hz

alternator and a tandem driven 300 kW exciter for the propulsion alternators
Speed: Trials: 29.27 knots (54.3 km/h)
1961-1973: 27.5 knots (51 km/h)
1973-1997: 23.50 knots (43.5 km/h)
Complement: 1961-1973: 548 First class, 1,690 Tourist class, 960 officers and crew
1973-1997: 1,737 passengers, 795 officers and crew

Details: Wikipedia

Photo Credits: The Alexander Turnbull Library NZ

Cheers and GB

Gordy