I had the joy of sailing on Oriana in August 1967..a 17 day cruise from Southhampton to Los Angeles as a 17 year old with 20 high school clasmates from Notre Dame High School. It was the most fun and carefree 17 days of my life.
I spent three weeks cruising on her in 1976. It was by far the greatest experience of my life. The British passengers and the friendliest crew ever, made this ship the best afloat.
I enjoyed travelling on her from Sydney 12 December 1970 to San Francisco 24 December 1970 via Auckland, Suva and Honolulu it was magnificent especially just after an engine refit caused by fire. 179 staff and 32 passengers a it the ailerons in due to a cyclone we needed to get past asap. The waves came up over the bow and we rocked and rolled. Playing ping pong was hilarious the ball would divert all over the place. The food was exemplary never mind the Petit fores and drinks that flowed constantl The staff were superb, my mother was amazed at the silver service, etiquette and professionalism on board. It was definitely a different time with higher expectations. I'll never forget the Oriana.
We immigrated from the US to Australia in 1965, and moved there sailing on the SS Oriana. A majestic and beautiful ship if ever there was. Our route was San Francisco, Vancouver, Honolulu, Suva (Fiji), Auckland (New Zealand), Sydney.
From the days when the U.K. still built great liners, gone forever it would seem. I loved the old Oriana, she was a bit spartan in the public rooms but better than the kitsch you see today. Beautiful spacious decks, again something lacking now. Great times to travel on a ship glad I was able to experience them even at a very young age.
I went for a tour over the Oriana as a 9 year old, on Saturday 6 November 1983, while she was in Hobart. I was mightily impressed as a small child. We even had lunch on board, I believe the restaurant was called the Elizabethan restaurant. I remember the enclosed area forward, as well as a swimming pool on the very upper decks.
My family emigrated to Western Australia on the Oriana arriving at Fremantle on December 18 1963. What an adventure it was as an 8 year old travelling to a New World.
I arrived into Fremantle with my family from Scotland on the 'Oriana' on Anzac Day 1969 and I was aged 7 yrs turning 8 yrs in May .. it was the BIGGEST adventure and I remember watching Tommy Steele 🎬 'Half a Sixpence' numerous times in the cinema 😜
Beautiful Lady. We Crossed from San Francisco to Auckland on a record breaking run when she was new. Awesome luxury. Crossed the pacific earlier on the SS Orsova and later on the SS Oronsay. Wonderful memories of great crews and service bar none. Sailed on the Canberra Auckland to Sydney but loved the Oriana best . .
I was a ventilation officer on Oriana 1979-80 what a great ship forever in my ❤️ engineers aboard best guys I ve worked with memories no one can take ❤️❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I sailed on this ship in the eighties a west Pacific cruise starting from Australia, I boarded in Honiara (Solomon Islands), and landed in Sydney. A pleasant experience.
@@davidbaber5445 It was spoken of that way at the time (I must remember wrong) so I assumed that was the case - I was maybe 6. All I have left now is a souvenir brass wall plaque.
@@MIck-M No problem,I used to work on the Arcadia,the only difference between her and the Iberia was the Arcadia had a black top to her funnel,oh and the Arcadia was lucky to have me as part of her crew.lol...😬
Visited her in Southampton in 1974 when we were on the radio officers' course so we could see a real radio room; the visit being conducted by one of our lecturers who was ex-P&O.
that laticework of cutouts in the stern is what foundered her. I saw a picture of her listing badly in a Chinese port after being caught in a bad storm. They had painted the stack pink. She was sent to be salvaged after that.
Me too I loved her and didn't want to get off in Auckland. Lol I remember flying fish and finding them on the decks in the mornings and porpoises. Fishing off the stern on crew deck catching Hammerhead sharks in Suva harbor Fiji. Great memories.
Brilliant film of a ship I sailed in once, and very briefly, but for pure entertainment, read the subtitles! Laugh a minute ( racing through the Brucie...blue sea perhaps?, propellors churning out fur... foam perhaps? I havent yet worked out what the "brides seed" is!)
Awesome ship and memories. Sailed from San Fran to Sydney, stops in Auckland and Fiji. Then a cargo plane to Papua in 1965 for some yrs. A great adventure for a young kid. Went aboard in the 1970's when docked in Honolulu. Sail others since but that was the benchmark for me as opposed to the floating hotels -though I like them in their own way.
My dad was a senior officer I think. His name was Jack Scott. Maybe your dad knew him? I haven't seen him since I was 4 years old, he took my mom and I on it and he bought me an orange Fanta drink.
Horrid the music was a very distasteful noise. It should be light background music that doesn't nearly drown out the commentary. I loved my one trip on her in '68!
Haha! I was thinking of how to say basically the same thing but you put it very well! It seemed that the dramatic, stirring music would rise to a mighty crescendo every few seconds or so...
I'm going to say it, ok? I'm going to be honest. I'm not a huge fan of how liners such as the Oriana and Canberra were built. As a matter of fact I'd go as far as saying the cruise ship Oriana (now Piano Land) is better looking than the liner. She's not nearly as bulky as today's floating condos, and she's relatively streamlined, with some liner aspects still remaining. However this is still one of the most unique vessels I've ever seen, and ultimately I love myself a strong, fast ship, and she most definitely fit the bill. Shame she was scrapped (also why hasn't P&O made a new ship named Canberra yet?)
I agree with your assessment: if you compare the Oriana to the 1960s Italian liners (Raffaello/Michelangelo/Leonardo da Vinci) or the SS France and the original QE2, the Oriana is not very attractive (but her bow is spectacular), nor even compared to the Canberra (whose profile is not bad looking at all). The new Oriana really does look better and more streamlined, despute her hints of boxiness.
she was a good ship, but rusting from the inside even before launch, these days all steel is preblasted and painted barring weld areas she had a wonderful entry, you never see bows as she had on cruise ships, cruise ships have to slow for heavy weather, not Oriana, she cut the water
Maybe weird-looking and messy would be better descriptions: barring her magnificent bow, her superstructure looks messy and jumbled, the stern with multiple openings is not very harmonius and those funnels just don't make a statement. Her overall design just makes her look more clunky than cool and streamlined. Compare her esthetics to the great Atlantic liners of Italy and France from the 60s or even the QE2 and you'll catch my drift.
@@graceygal2664 probably bc it dared to be different, and most people can't handle out of the box thinking 🙄. Oriana intrigued me as a kid; I still have the model of her I built 😋
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I had the joy of sailing on Oriana in August 1967..a 17 day cruise from Southhampton to Los Angeles as a 17 year old with 20 high school clasmates from Notre Dame High School. It was the most fun and carefree 17 days of my life.
I spent three weeks cruising on her in 1976. It was by far the greatest experience of my life. The British passengers and the friendliest crew ever, made this ship the best afloat.
I enjoyed travelling on her from Sydney 12 December 1970 to San Francisco 24 December 1970 via Auckland, Suva and Honolulu it was magnificent especially just after an engine refit caused by fire.
179 staff and 32 passengers a it the ailerons in due to a cyclone we needed to get past asap. The waves came up over the bow and we rocked and rolled. Playing ping pong was hilarious the ball would divert all over the place.
The food was exemplary never mind the Petit fores and drinks that flowed constantl
The staff were superb, my mother was amazed at the silver service, etiquette and professionalism on board.
It was definitely a different time with higher expectations.
I'll never forget the Oriana.
We immigrated from the US to Australia in 1965, and moved there sailing on the SS Oriana. A majestic and beautiful ship if ever there was.
Our route was San Francisco, Vancouver, Honolulu, Suva (Fiji), Auckland (New Zealand), Sydney.
From the days when the U.K. still built great liners, gone forever it would seem. I loved the old Oriana, she was a bit spartan in the public rooms but better than the kitsch you see today. Beautiful spacious decks, again something lacking now. Great times to travel on a ship glad I was able to experience them even at a very young age.
The ships of today look like high hotels on a prow shaped barge!
I went for a tour over the Oriana as a 9 year old, on Saturday 6 November 1983, while she was in Hobart. I was mightily impressed as a small child. We even had lunch on board, I believe the restaurant was called the Elizabethan restaurant. I remember the enclosed area forward, as well as a swimming pool on the very upper decks.
My family emigrated to Western Australia on the Oriana arriving at Fremantle on December 18 1963. What an adventure it was as an 8 year old travelling to a New World.
same same...1967
I arrived into Fremantle with my family from Scotland on the 'Oriana' on Anzac Day 1969 and I was aged 7 yrs turning 8 yrs in May
.. it was the BIGGEST adventure and I remember watching Tommy Steele 🎬 'Half a Sixpence' numerous times in the cinema 😜
@@helenmiller5197 I recall watching 3 films on the Oriana in 1963. From Russia With Love, Bye Bye Birdie and The Running Man
@@terrybrown4400 .. it was wonderful, as they were FREE 🤩
Same, except to New South Wales in 1965.
Beautiful Lady.
We Crossed from San Francisco to Auckland on a record breaking run when she was new.
Awesome luxury.
Crossed the pacific earlier on the SS Orsova and later on the SS Oronsay.
Wonderful memories of great crews and service bar none.
Sailed on the Canberra Auckland to Sydney but loved the Oriana best .
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Sailed from Hong Kong to Southampton thru Suez in 67 aged 11. Flying fish, porpoise at Port Said, storm in the Bay of Biscay - magical
I was a ventilation officer on Oriana 1979-80 what a great ship forever in my ❤️ engineers aboard best guys I ve worked with memories no one can take ❤️❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I sailed on this ship in the eighties a west Pacific cruise starting from Australia, I boarded in Honiara (Solomon Islands), and landed in Sydney. A pleasant experience.
I was on that lovely ship in 1967. Southampton-Australia. 1st Class don't you know....a wonderful experience for a 13 year old!
So was I! 1967 migrating to Australia. Had an amazing pool party for my 21st birthday onboard, it was a blast!
Fabulous liner, I sailed on her just once.
Terrific. There is a quality here both in the ship and this programme something we have lost.
I went on the Oriana's sister ship Arcadia around the same time this one was often in port here in Australia. Better days.
Iberia,was the sister ship to Arcadia,there was no sister ship to Oriana,she was a stand alone ship.how do I know,I worked for P& O in the sixties.
Built to accommodate the £10 Poms along with the Canberra, Southern Cross and a few others!
@@davidbaber5445 It was spoken of that way at the time (I must remember wrong) so I assumed that was the case - I was maybe 6. All I have left now is a souvenir brass wall plaque.
@@MIck-M No problem,I used to work on the Arcadia,the only difference between her and the Iberia was the Arcadia had a black top to her funnel,oh and the Arcadia was lucky to have me as part of her crew.lol...😬
Another famous ship built in my home town and one of the most beautiful.
She was the largest and fastest ship ever built in an English shipyard at 41,915 tons and 27 knots SS and 30.64 knots top
Visited her in Southampton in 1974 when we were on the radio officers' course so we could see a real radio room; the visit being conducted by one of our lecturers who was ex-P&O.
my late great uncle was 1 st vent officer aboard her , he was with her from the begining at vickers in barrow
that laticework of cutouts in the stern is what foundered her. I saw a picture of her listing badly in a Chinese port after being caught in a bad storm. They had painted the stack pink. She was sent to be salvaged after that.
I remember Oriana visiting New Zealand in her later years
So much vibration, your drink would fall of table. All part of the fun of cruising on this great P&O ship. 😀
Watched these ships at Tilbury !! Iberia, Strahavon , etc !
Thank you for the great content!
Travelled on this ship 1966-7 Melbourne to Honolulu and back. Great memories.
I crossed the Pacific on the Oriana in 1962.
Me too
I loved her and didn't want to get off in Auckland. Lol
I remember flying fish and finding them on the decks in the mornings and porpoises.
Fishing off the stern on crew deck catching Hammerhead sharks in Suva harbor Fiji.
Great memories.
Brilliant film of a ship I sailed in once, and very briefly, but for pure entertainment, read the subtitles! Laugh a minute ( racing through the Brucie...blue sea perhaps?, propellors churning out fur... foam perhaps? I havent yet worked out what the "brides seed" is!)
My family emigrated to Canada on this ship.
Awesome ship and memories. Sailed from San Fran to Sydney, stops in Auckland and Fiji. Then a cargo plane to Papua in 1965 for some yrs. A great adventure for a young kid. Went aboard in the 1970's when docked in Honolulu. Sail others since but that was the benchmark for me as opposed to the floating hotels -though I like them in their own way.
Saw her once at Gibraltar lovely ship.
My grandparents were on the maiden voyage back to NZ after sailing to the UK on the Orsova
We emigrated on her to New Zealand leaving the U.K. in February 1964 and arriving in Auckland the following month.
£10 ?
NZ referred to it as "assisted passage"
At 13.55 the group sitting around the table discussing curtains, fabrics, colours etc., are all men. Definitely a different era.
My dad worked on this ship he was a steward for years
My dad was a senior officer I think. His name was Jack Scott. Maybe your dad knew him? I haven't seen him since I was 4 years old, he took my mom and I on it and he bought me an orange Fanta drink.
Very good, thanks.
Thanks for this video . Not your normal one
Sailed on her on a pacific cruise in the early 80’s. Then she was decommissioned
@Paul Dallow Yeah, me too. 1984. Very dated by then, but still quite glamorous!
My god... That music. You'd think Godzilla was coming. XD
Horrid the music was a very distasteful noise. It should be light background music that doesn't nearly drown out the commentary. I loved my one trip on her in '68!
Haha! I was thinking of how to say basically the same thing but you put it very well! It seemed that the dramatic, stirring music would rise to a mighty crescendo every few seconds or so...
did the ship carry the ten pound poms ? I think my cousin and his family went off in 64 on one like this
Yes did 3 trips on her as an engineer in 1971 and 1972
Yes, my family were £10 poms in 1967
I'm going to say it, ok? I'm going to be honest. I'm not a huge fan of how liners such as the Oriana and Canberra were built. As a matter of fact I'd go as far as saying the cruise ship Oriana (now Piano Land) is better looking than the liner. She's not nearly as bulky as today's floating condos, and she's relatively streamlined, with some liner aspects still remaining. However this is still one of the most unique vessels I've ever seen, and ultimately I love myself a strong, fast ship, and she most definitely fit the bill. Shame she was scrapped (also why hasn't P&O made a new ship named Canberra yet?)
I agree with your assessment: if you compare the Oriana to the 1960s Italian liners (Raffaello/Michelangelo/Leonardo da Vinci) or the SS France and the original QE2, the Oriana is not very attractive (but her bow is spectacular), nor even compared to the Canberra (whose profile is not bad looking at all). The new Oriana really does look better and more streamlined, despute her hints of boxiness.
Tempi interessante grandi transatlantici meravigliosi gioielli bellissimi. Oggi tempi moderni stupide scatole gabbie da crociera
i ha two trips ha rom Auckland New Zealand great crew and the end was near had some great times was by all
Sailed as crew on her in 1979.
Im curious if anyone knew a Jack Scott or John Scott that was an officer on this ship? If so do you know if hes alive
I liked the Stern Gallery right above the propellers. Used to vibrate quite a bit there
@ROD The Stern Gallery disco!! 💃🕺
@@andrewthornhill7042 I cruised on Oriana Feb 1982 just after she had permanently been positioned in Sydney and again in September 83. Great times
@@rod5262 Yeah, weren't they just?!
I was a chef in the silver grill grate days
Did you know Jack Scott
she was a good ship, but rusting from the inside even before launch, these days all steel is preblasted and painted barring weld areas
she had a wonderful entry, you never see bows as she had on cruise ships, cruise ships have to slow for heavy weather, not Oriana, she cut the water
Codswallop, she was all aluminium, I was a chief engineer 68 to 72
Narrator - Maurice Denham?
@Simon Taylor Yes, it's Maurice Denham.
would love to watch it but the sound is terrible
Old mate like you old worn out ,Done for, tired etc etc old
Turn sound down its your volume button
Don’t know if this will mention the serious propulsion vibration, and the severe superstructure failure (cracking), port side, aft 🤔
i can't she why she's supposed to be one of the most beautiful liners ever
That sure is one ugly ship
Why do you think that
Maybe weird-looking and messy would be better descriptions: barring her magnificent bow, her superstructure looks messy and jumbled, the stern with multiple openings is not very harmonius and those funnels just don't make a statement. Her overall design just makes her look more clunky than cool and streamlined.
Compare her esthetics to the great Atlantic liners of Italy and France from the 60s or even the QE2 and you'll catch my drift.
@@graceygal2664 probably bc it dared to be different, and most people can't handle out of the box thinking 🙄. Oriana intrigued me as a kid; I still have the model of her I built 😋
Just dared to be different, makes a change, bit like cars these days, all look similar.