CANBERRA
...shown here on Waitemata Harbour Auckland NZ

Name: Canberra
Namesake: City of Canberra, Australia

IMO 5059953

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