The Canberra Sets Sail

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The Canberra Sets Sail

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Location

Belfast, Harland and Wolff

Year

1960

Date

Production 16/03/1960

Length

01min 03sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

The Canberra departing Belfast Docks on possibly her first voyage to Southampton in 1960. 

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 & 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, Canberra. She was launched on 16 March 1960, sponsored by Dame Pattie Menzies, GBE, wife of the then Prime Minister of Australia, Robert Menzies. She entered service in May 1961, and made her maiden voyage starting in June. She appeared in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever. In the 1982 Falklands War she served as a troopship.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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