The SS Canberra was an ocean liner in the P&O fleet, built by Harland and Wolff in 1960. She was later used in the Falklands War before being scrapped in 1998. Detailed contents include: Correspondence and clippings on the donation of the deck plan to the UFTM; memorabilia from voyages including from Southampton to Turkey, Greece, and Gibraltar including information sheets about the cruise; luggage labels and stickers; a tie; keychain; metal stamp; headed notepaper; envelopes; a guide to tipping; an invitation to the Captain’s reception; breakfast, luncheon and dinner menus with illustrations reproduced from artwork; issues of various P&O magazines and information booklets including ‘Canberra Today’, ‘Maiden Voyage’, ‘Log of my Cruise’ and a farewell season card; a framed newspaper clipping from the Belfast Telegraph on the launch of the Canberra; postcards; prints; photographs from the welcome home parade [Falklands]; various photographs of the interior and exterior including the hull and propellors; aerial photographs, photographs of those prominent in the design of the ship and ship engineering plans. Also, a postcard of the steamer ‘Asturias’; a riveting list; a souvenir booklet of the H.M.S. Vanguard; a Harland and Wolff information booklet and Service to the Offshore Industry magazine; a Pratt & Whitney Dependable Engines medal and a Shaw Savill Line rexine shoulder bag. Date range 1960s-1990s.
