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IMO 5264742 , Dead.
Ship Type : Passenger Liner.
Dim : Loa / Lpp x Beam : 244.97m (804.0ft) / 225.47m (740.0ft) / 29.61m (97.1ft).
Passenger Capacity : 638 first class, 1,496 tourist class.
Crew Capacity : 899 (115 deck, 65 engineering, 722 catering).
Cargo capacity 4,749 cubic metres (172,500 cubic feet) including 1,557 cubic metres (55,000 cubic feet) refrigerated.

Built in 1960 by Vickers-Armstrongs (Shipbuilders) Ltd Yard Barrow-in-Furness United Kingdom as " ORANIA " for Orient Steam Navigation Company Ltd ( P&O-Orient Management Ltd London ) London United Kingdom.

Tonnage : grt / nrt / tdw - 41.915 / 22.354 / 12.835.
Machinery : Pametrada double-reduction geared steam turbines ( HP + LP ) - 2 x 32.500 Shp - 27.5 knots (service) , 30.5 knots (trials)

1956: The last passenger liner ordered for Orient Steam Navigation Company, and the first British-built liner with a bulbous bow, the first ocean liner with bow thrusters and a television system.
18.09.1957: Keel laid.
03.11.1959: Launched by Princess Alexandra of Kent.
21.10.1960: Visited at Barrow by HM Queen Elizabeth II after she had launched the nuclear Submarine HMS Dreadnought.
04.11.1960: Left Barrow for trials and dry-docking at Falmouth.
13.11.1960: Achieved 30.64 knots over the measured mile off the Isle of Arran.
15.11.1960: Delivered as Oriana to the Orient Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £14,764,000. Entered service in Orient Line’s ‘corn’ hull colours only later changing to P&O white. Her name derived from an Elizabethan madrigal describing the exploits of the mythical huntress
Oriana in such a way as to make evident this was a veiled compliment to Queen Elizabeth I, and the two Elizabeths were symbolised by the double E monogram of Oriana’s badge.
22.11.1960: Maiden voyage was a five-day shakedown cruise Southampton/Lisbon and back for Association of British Travel Agents convention members.
03.12.1960: Began first line voyage, Southampton / Melbourne / Sydney / San Francisco / Los Angeles and return to Southampton.
05.02.1961: On her first visit to San Francisco, the Mayor declared the day ‘Oriana Day’.
03.12.1962: Suffered bow damage in a collision with the aircraft carrier USS Kearsage off Long Beach, which the subsequent enquiry blamed on Oriana. Three days repairs at Todd Shipyard in Los Angeles.
17.09.1963: Henry Frederick Jensen, the Mayor of Sydney, presented the Keys of the City to the Captain of the Oriana at the Overseas Passenger Terminal at Circular Quay, Sydney.
1964: Changed her livery from her original distinctive Orient Line ‘corn’ colour to P&O Line’s white livery.
1965: Ownership transferred to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
1966: Film actor Cary Grant sailed from Los Angeles to Southampton to visit his mother in Bristol.
01.10.1966: Managers renamed P&O Lines Management Ltd; operators restyled P&O Lines.
21.05.1967: Grounded briefly when travelling southbound through the Suez Canal where she suffered minor propeller damage.
07.04.1968: Grounded in Gatun Lake, Panama Canal. Starboard propeller and shaft dragged back about 4m (12ft). Surveyed at Cristobal and repairs proposed at Port Everglades but due to poor weather it was decided to do the work at Southampton.
28.04.1968: Dry-docked at Southampton for replacement of stern tube, propeller shaft and propeller.
01.08.1970: Suffered an oil fire in the boiler room shortly after leaving Southampton en route for Australia. She was still in Southampton water and lost all power. She had to be towed back to port. Delayed for two weeks.
01.10.1971: Management and operation transferred to P&O Passenger Division.
1973: Capacity now 1,640 passengers on an ‘open class’ basis for cruises,later adopted for all voyages.
05.1978: Was a victim of a bomb hoax. An anonymous letter to P&O headquarters warned that a bomb was on board, which led to a rendezvous North of the Azores with an RAF Hercules aircraft
carrying eight Royal Marine commandos and three bomb-disposal experts, though the proposed parachute jump was not carried out, as a search had found nothing.
31.03.1980: Re-measured. Now 41,920 grt.
12.11.1981: Sailed from the UK for cruises based in Sydney, unlike previous years not returning to Europe for the Northern summer but remaining permanently based in Australia.
31.03.1982: Re-measured. Now 12,750 tons deadweight.
31.12.1984: Re-measured. Now 41,910 grt, 12,027 tons deadweight.
07.1985: Host to the King and Queen of Tonga at a banquet to celebrate port
extensions at Nuku’alofa.
07.1985: Re-measured. Now 12,220 tons deadweight.
07.08.1985: Announced that she was to be withdrawn in March 1986.
11.02.1986: Management transferred to P&O Lines Ltd.
27.03.1986: Docked at Sydney for the last time.
30.04.1986: Sold for $9.4 million to Daiwa House Sales Co Ltd, Japan for service as a floating cultural attraction in Beppu Bay, Kyushu.
29.05.1986: Left Sydney towed by P&O’s part-owned tug Lady Lorraine.
26.06.1986: Delivered at Sakai, Japan.
1995: Sold to Qinhuangdao Harbour Authority, China, for conversion into a maritime museum at the port 150km (95 miles) east of Beijing.
11.1998: Sold to Hangzhou Xihu Travel Culture Development Company and Hangzhou Jiefang Department Store Group for a reported $5.8 million for refurbishment prior to mooring opposite the Bund, a tourist spot in Shanghai.
30.06.2002: Resold and arrived at Dalian, China.
17.06.2004: Badly damaged and flooded by storms at Dalian. Suffered a gash in her bow and was reported as being partially sunk and slanting.
05.2005: Towed to a shipyard in Zhangiangang, China.
09.08.2005: Demolition commenced.



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