My late Dad was a security man at Southampton docks, we had day passes for the Canberra and Oriana. I remember coming home with a huge bundle of streamers in the back of our Austin 1300.....happy days!
My family joined this 1980 cruise in San Francisco. A day or two later, around February 5th in the evening, we heard the following announcement come on loudly over the the speakers in our cabin: "May I have your attention please. This is the Commodore speaking. We have been notified by San Francisco that a BOMB has been placed aboard this ship, detonated to explode on passage to Honolulu. We will be searching through the cabins, restaurants, ...." and so it went. Needless to say, no bomb was ever found but it sure made for a gloomy leg of the trip. Security got much tighter when we docked thereafter. Otherwise, from Hawaii to Australia where we disembarked, it was a VERY wonderful experience. A version of Rod Stewart's "Sailing" was the ship's theme song and passengers would start singing along, 'we are sailing home again across the sea' each time we left a port of call. I still think of Canberra whenever I hear it played.
11,500 pounds would buy you a lot in 1980, lovely ship that served P&O well, even served her country via the Falklands war, splendid and once proud ship.
Get's the inflation calculator out...Those fares of between £2000 and £11,500 are in today's money (2020) approx. between £8,600 and a whopping £50,000!! (Bank Of England inflation calculator)
What people might not realise is that only the highest category cabins had twin beds with private facilities plus porthole (balconies were unheard of). That £2000 pound lowest fare was for sharing a 4 berth inside cabin comprising bunk beds ( often with total strangers) with shared toilet facilities off the corridor. Imagine 3 months of sharing in a claustrophobic cabin with people you might find out you can’t stand. Horrifying NOT a dream holiday.
Along with Emu and Kiwi Airlines (- you may not know them. They never really got off the ground), a ship named Canberra (- the land locked capital city of Australia -) just doesn't make sense. There's probably a wonderful story behind the name.
It was by the ship, that fascinated me most as a child (I even remember to have assembled an Airfix styrene kit of her), that I learned that the capitol of Australia was Canberra and not Sydney as I had thought and which I found a bit bizarre.
@@othernicksweretaken There's a restaurant in western Sydney called "The Titanic". Nothing ironic about it They serve Lebanese cuisine. I don't know how all these factors came together. Boss may have had fond memories of the film?
Before lock down, l worked agency on a zero hrs contract, and they sent me to a chicken processing plant. The chicken was Lithuanian, and it was butchered and reboxed for cruise ships....With a use by date of 2 years! I don't think the food on board was/ is that nice.
WOW MY DAD was an engineer on that ship!!!!!!!
Always loved Canberra. Lovely ship.
thanks for posting this, my grandfather was the captain
What was his name? My father was a engineer onboard in the 70s and early 80s.
What was the captains name I was on that cruise
I do wish I were there indeed
My late Dad was a security man at Southampton docks, we had day passes for the Canberra and Oriana. I remember coming home with a huge bundle of streamers in the back of our Austin 1300.....happy days!
My parents took me on the Canberra from Cadiz Spain to Ft. Lauraldale,Fl in 1978
Wow! What a stunning fur coat! So classy
My family joined this 1980 cruise in San Francisco. A day or two later, around February 5th in the evening, we heard the following announcement come on loudly over the the speakers in our cabin: "May I have your attention please. This is the Commodore speaking. We have been notified by San Francisco that a BOMB has been placed aboard this ship, detonated to explode on passage to Honolulu. We will be searching through the cabins, restaurants, ...." and so it went. Needless to say, no bomb was ever found but it sure made for a gloomy leg of the trip. Security got much tighter when we docked thereafter. Otherwise, from Hawaii to Australia where we disembarked, it was a VERY wonderful experience.
A version of Rod Stewart's "Sailing" was the ship's theme song and passengers would start singing along, 'we are sailing home again across the sea' each time we left a port of call. I still think of Canberra whenever I hear it played.
11,500 pounds would buy you a lot in 1980, lovely ship that served P&O well, even served her country via the Falklands war, splendid and once proud ship.
I was on that cruise 😊
wow
That’s a lot of shuffleboard games.
Get's the inflation calculator out...Those fares of between £2000 and £11,500 are in today's money (2020) approx. between £8,600 and a whopping £50,000!! (Bank Of England inflation calculator)
Back then people did things.
Now, they only think about doing things and are convinced that they don't have the time to indulge.
It doesn't look like it stops in Hong Kong on the map, it sails south of Formosa. I wonder if it was on the itinerary?
The Canberra should have been saved ...a British icon also helped in the Falklands war
What people might not realise is that only the highest category cabins had twin beds with private facilities plus porthole (balconies were unheard of). That £2000 pound lowest fare was for sharing a 4 berth inside cabin comprising bunk beds ( often with total strangers) with shared toilet facilities off the corridor. Imagine 3 months of sharing in a claustrophobic cabin with people you might find out you can’t stand. Horrifying NOT a dream holiday.
Ahhh To travel on a ship that holds only 1500 passengers… Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away.....
Only 45,000 tonnes? The dome on top of St. Paul's Cathedral weighs 21,000 tonnes more
yes 66000 tons precisely according to google ...amazing! wow!
How times have changed eh ? Most of today's cruise liners have lifeboats bigger than that ship !
Well said. Todays ships may be big but they certainly don’t have the style and beauty of the Canberra. A lovely ship
My Granda, was on the building of it in Belfast ship yard, Northern Ireland 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Along with Emu and Kiwi Airlines (- you may not know them. They never really got off the ground), a ship named Canberra (- the land locked capital city of Australia -) just doesn't make sense.
There's probably a wonderful story behind the name.
It was by the ship, that fascinated me most as a child (I even remember to have assembled an Airfix styrene kit of her), that I learned that the capitol of Australia was Canberra and not Sydney as I had thought and which I found a bit bizarre.
@@othernicksweretaken There's a restaurant in western Sydney called "The Titanic".
Nothing ironic about it
They serve Lebanese cuisine.
I don't know how all these factors came together.
Boss may have had fond memories of the film?
Before lock down, l worked agency on a zero hrs contract, and they sent me to a chicken processing plant.
The chicken was Lithuanian, and it was butchered and reboxed for cruise ships....With a use by date of 2 years!
I don't think the food on board was/ is that nice.
What an odd comment
They can’t make the chicken instantly are you dumb?
Thanks You tube I really didn't need to see this now, and didn't Judith and Chris look so youthful ?
Didn't they have a permission to film the vessel?
It was more quayside waffling than any coverage of CANBERRA.
Canberra, veteran of the Falklands War.
What are you expecting for your money. A nice cuppa tea. Andy England 🇬🇧👍🍵
Mmmmm Judith you’re not very tall are you......but I do like you..even if you’re into your 80’s????now
85 I think
I will take it, $2000 pounds.
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Nice raccoons 🦝
She was orange before Trump, but with much nicer hair.
I do wish I were there indeed