Canberra Cruise Ship Scrapping

In 1997 she made a last voyage before scrapping.

Canberra cruise ship scrapping. It was a 14 day cruise from Southhampton visiting Spain Rock of Gibralter Palma de Majorca Tenerife shortly after the two 747s crashed on the runway Madiera and a few other places. Her deep draft means that she cannot be beached as far as most ships and due to her solid construction the scrapping process takes nearly a year instead of the estimated three months being totally. HAMBURG of 1969 deserves preservation in her original home port of Hamburg.

I sailed in a court cabin on the Canberra in October 1981. Decommissioned in 1947 the CANBERRA was reclassified CAG 2 in January 1952 and subsequently underwent conversion to a guided missile heavy cruise at New York Shipbuilding Corp Camden NJ. She was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast Northern Ireland at a cost of 17 million.

The ship was named on 17 March 1958 after the federal capital of Australia CanberraShe was launched on 16 March 1960 sponsored by Dame Pattie Menzies wife of the then Prime Minister of. She entered service in May 1961 and made her maiden voyage starting in June In the 1982 Falklands War she served as a troopship. The ship originally built as an ocean liner entered service in 1961 and was used in the 1982 Falkland War as a troop ship.

USS Canberra CAG 2 Initially named PITTSBURGH but later renamed CANBERRA the ship was commissioned as a BALTIMORE - class heavy gun cruiser. SS Canberra was an ocean liner which later operated on cruises in the PO fleet from 1961 to 1997. TV star Jimmy Savile was locked in his cabin then booted off the ship over claims he assaulted a 14-year-old.

Crown Cruise Lines 1984-2001 was a luxury brand Boca Raton Florida-based and fully-owned subsidiary company of Grundstad Maritime Overseas Inc. Canberra was withdrawn from PO service in September 1997 and sold to ship breakers for scrapping on 10 October 1997 leaving for Gadani ship-breaking yard Pakistan on 31 October 1997. Her deep draft meant that she could not be beached as far as most ships and due to her solid construction the scrapping process took nearly a year instead of the estimated three months being totally scrapped by.

Posted September 21 2007. SATOSHI PACIFIC DAWN SENT TO SCRAP. The third ship of the pioneering Royal Viking Line spent many years as a German cruise ship named Albatros and just recently was also sold for scrap.