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    SS Canberra was an ocean liner, which later operated on cruises, in the P&O fleet from 1961 to 1997. She was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in...
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  • with the name HMAS Canberra. East Indies 1940–41 Pacific 1941–42 Guadalcanal 1942 Savo Island 1942 Persian Gulf 2002 SS Canberra, a passenger liner launched...
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    New Zealand route, until the introduction of the 45,733 ton SS Canberra in 1961. The Canberra could never match the Oriana for speed, however, the latter...
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  • Canberra (L02), lead vessel of the Canberra-class landing helicopter docks, launched in 2011 PS Canberra, a paddle steamer built in 1912 SS Canberra,...
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    return to Southampton from a world cruise on 7 April, the ocean liner SS Canberra was requisitioned and set sail two days later with the 3 Commando Brigade...
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    "From Birth to Breakers". SS Maritime. Retrieved 27 July 2019. Goossens, Reuben. "SS Canberra – Times Are 'a' Changing". SS Maritime. Retrieved 27 July...
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    Elizabeth. The 1971 film version starring Connery used the P&O liner SS Canberra for the sequence. The wreck was featured in the 1974 James Bond film...
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    Southern Cross; Union-Castle's RMS Pendennis Castle; P&O's Canberra; and Hamburg-America's SS Amerika of 1905. Harland and Wolff's official history, Shipbuilders...
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    Boat III: 1998–2000 S.S The Big Red Boat II: 2000–2000 S.S Canberra "Rembrandt or The Big Red Boat IV": 1997 S.S Sun Venture? (As S.S Doric): 1997 M.T.S...
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    bullet. Their final attempt to kill Bond and Case takes place on the SS Canberra cruise liner after Bond foils Blofeld's plot. They pose as stewards in...
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    considerable amount of time on board SS Canberra investigating the needs of British passengers, so as to include as many of Canberra's features as possible into...
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  • attached units of the Parachute Regiment were landed from the liner SS Canberra and the LPD HMS Fearless. There was very limited enemy resistance on...
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    the SS Canberra, a British P&O cruise liner that the UK used in 1982 in the Falklands War. Known colloquially as "The Great White Whale", Canberra ferried...
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    Club of New York to view the June 1973 total solar eclipse aboard the SS Canberra. The scientific cruise carried two thousand scientists, engineers, and...
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  • from service in the Falklands. SS Canberra in San Carlos Water. MV Norland repatriating troops at the end of hostilities. SS Atlantic Conveyor approaching...
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    RMS Strathaird (redirect from SS Strathaird)
    enough for mail and passenger service, so P&O replaced both ships with SS Canberra. P&O sold Strathnaver and Strathaird for scrap to Shun Fung Ironworks...
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    accepted and 4,167 of them were repatriated to Argentina on the ocean liner Canberra alone. The junta had incorrectly stated that the liner had been crippled...
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    describing her as being "not very beautiful, but very efficient", but P&O's SS Canberra of 1961, ordered one year after Southern Cross entered service, was built...
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  • Elizabeth (1938) and also the French Line’s SS Normandie (1932), Royal Mail’s RMS Andes (1939) P&O's SS Canberra (1961). The Thermotank system was also adopted...
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  • ships were requisitioned, as Ships Taken Up From Trade (STUFT). Liners SS Canberra 44,807 GRT – equipped with helicopter pad and carried personnel of the...
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  • Reverend Saunders for a mission in British Columbia, Canada in 1967. SS Canberra Port of Tilbury "Launching of P. and O. Ship". The Age. 18 December 1953...
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    Falklands Islands during the 1982 war were repatriated on the vessels SS Canberra MV St. Edmund and MV Norland, which sailed from Port Stanley on 18 June...
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    cambers (previously, large liners such as the Queen Elizabeth 2 and SS Canberra, like naval battleships and aircraft carriers, had anchored at Grassy...
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    The fifth SS Rotterdam, also known as "The Grande Dame", is a former ocean liner and cruise ship, and has been a hotel ship in Rotterdam, Netherlands,...
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  • November 5, 1918 RMS Canada 1848 Scrapped in 1883 SS Canberra 1960 Scrapped at Gadani Beach, Pakistan in 1997 SS Cap Arcona 1927 Caught fire and capsized in...
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  • blind man appearing on the cruise ship. Location filmed on board P&O SS Canberra cruise out of Southampton. This concluded The Two Ronnies' serials collection...
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    two sisters and a brother, Young emigrated to Australia on board the SS Canberra, arriving in Sydney on Australia Day (26 January) 1962 when he was aged...
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  • small Union bunting flag from his bergen, which he had acquired from SS Canberra's bunting locker. Marine Gillingham first tied the flag to Corporal Robinson's...
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    29 Squadron – (Phantom FGR.2) 3; only at Wideawake No. 39 Squadron – (Canberra PR.9) 2; Clandestine operations from Chile No. 42 Squadron – (Nimrod MR...
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    simply-named Harbour Ferry. The boat was once a lifeboat from the liner SS Canberra and is now licensed and equipped for 58 passengers. Felixstowe Harwich...
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