• Source: SS Canberra

SS Canberra adalah sebuah kapal samudera, yang kemudian dioperasikan di kapal pesiar, di armada P&O dari tahun 1961 sampai 1997. Dia dibangun di galangan kapal Harland dan Wolff di Belfast, Irlandia Utara dengan biaya £ 17.000.000.
Kapal itu dinamakan pada tanggal 17 Maret tahun 1958, seperti nama ibu kota federal Australia, Canberra. Dia diluncurkan pada 16 Maret 1960, yang disponsori oleh Dame Pattie Menzies, GBE, istri Perdana Menteri Australia, Robert Menzies. Dia memasuki layanan Mei 1961, dan membuatnya pelayaran perdananya pada awal bulan Juni. Dalam Perang Malvinas 1982, ia sebagai kapal pasukan.
Kapal ini berbobot 49,073 gross tons, panjangnya 820 feet (250 m). Propulsi Utama: Two British Thomson-Houston (AEI) synchronous three-phase, 6,000 volt air-cooled electric motors providing 85,000 hp (63,000 kW); power supplied by two 32,200 kW steam turbine driven alternators; twin screws. Cadangan: Four steam turbines, each driving a 1,500 kW, 440 V, 3 Phase, 60 Hz alternator and a tandem driven 300 kW exciter for the propulsion alternators
Kecepatan 23.50 knots (43.5 km/h), kapasitas 150,000 cubic feet (4,200 m3) of cargo. Kapasitas 1,737 penumpang. Kru 795 awak.




Referensi



Mitchell, WH; Sawyer, LA (1967). Cruising Ships. Doubleday.
Vine, Andrew (2012). A Very Strange Way to Go to War: The Canberra in the Falklands. Aurum Press. ISBN 978-1845137458.
Correia, Luis Miguel; Miller, William H (1997). SS Canberra of 1961. Liner Books. ISBN 972-96940-5-2.
Dawson, Philip (1990). British Superliners of the Sixties. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-542-X.
Dawson, Philip (1997). Canberra – In the Wake of Legend. Conway Maritime Press for P&O. ISBN 0-85177-707-4.
McCart, Neil (1983). Canberra – The Great White Whale. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 0-85059-636-X.
McCart, Neil (1989). P&O's Canberra – The Ship That Shaped The Future. Kingfisher Railway Publications. ISBN 0-946184-54-2.
McCart, Neil (1993). P&O's Canberra & Sea Princess. Fan Publications. ISBN 0-9519538-2-6.
McCart, Neil (1998). SS Canberra 1957–1997. Fan Publications. ISBN 1-901225-00-3.
Muxworthy, Lt Cdr JL (1982). Canberra – The Great White Whale Goes To War. P&O.
Odell, Carol (1968). A Liner Goes To Sea. Angus & Robertson. ISBN 2-07-949824-X.

ssCanberra.com - a site dedicated to the Canberra Diarsipkan 2005-01-27 di Wayback Machine.
Great Ocean Liners: Canberra Diarsipkan 2016-03-03 di Wayback Machine.
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