Canberra Cruise Ship Scrapping

In 1997 I was working at a power station in Pakistan.

Canberra cruise ship scrapping. Along the coast at Gaddani was a ship-breakers the type you find in the Far East when the unfortunate ship is dragged up on the beach and devoured by hundreds of men with cutting torches and no. Canberra was withdrawn from PO service in September 1997 and sold to ship breakers for scrapping on 10 October 1997 leaving for Gadani ship-breaking yard Pakistan on 31 October 1997. HighSeas Ltd said the cruise ship would be used as a floating hotel in Dubai.

The ships ownership was transferred to NCLs parent company Star Cruises. Rather than scrap the Canberra PO refitted her with a casino and transformed into a cruise ship. She was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast Northern Ireland at a cost of 17 million.

She is an historic ship one of the best examples of the German shipbuilding art in the 1960s she is mostly still in original form and well maintained and she was a very successful cruise ship over the last 40 years. The Cruise Ship Costa Concordia Rests After Her Final Voyage Of Costa Concordia Completes Its Voyage To The Scrap Yard Pin By John Debusi Jr On Cruiseships In 2020. Canberra was withdrawn from PO service in September 1997 and sold to ship breakers for scrapping on 10 October 1997 leaving for Gadani ship-breaking yard Pakistan on 31 October 1997.

The third ship of the pioneering Royal Viking Line spent many years as a German cruise ship named Albatros and just recently was also sold for scrap. Its estimated scrap metal from one ship could pull in around 4 million in profit for the ship-breaking association. Her deep draft meant that she could not be beached as far as most ships and due to her solid construction the scrapping process took nearly a year instead of the estimated three months being totally scrapped by.

SS Canberra was an ocean liner which later operated on cruises in the PO fleet from 1961 to 1997. USS Canberra CAG 2 Initially named PITTSBURGH but later renamed CANBERRA the ship was commissioned as a BALTIMORE - class heavy gun cruiser. SS Canberra is withdrawn from PO service in September 1997 and sold to ship breakers for scrapping on October 10 1997 leaving for Gadani ship-breaking yard in Pakistan on October 31 1997.

The ship was named after the federal capital of Australia Canberra. Her illustrious career included a tour of duty during the Falklands war after operating as a world renowned cruise liner. Crown Cruise Lines 1984-2001 was a luxury brand Boca Raton Florida-based and fully-owned subsidiary company of Grundstad Maritime Overseas Inc.