You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Almost 60 years ago, in March 1958, a massive ship rolled into the ocean from the same Belfast ...

Launched at a time when ocean liners were rapidly losing relevance, SS Canberra was widely seen as a risky gamble. Jet travel was already reshaping global transportation, and many expected the ship to ...

THE day before St. Patrick's Day 1960 was cold, wet and miserable. But at Harland and Wolff no-one noticed the weather much. Three hundred invited guests and 11,000 onlookers had gathered to view the ...

In the early hours of the morning just weeks into the Falklands War, aboard the SS Canberra, Brian Short took his place to watch over a handful of the thousands of Argentine prisoners of war (POWs) ...

Dr Teddy Mayner, ship’s surgeon who carried out vital work during the Falklands War – obituary Under Mayner during the conflict, the SS Canberra treated 172 patients, both British and Argentine, all ...

11/07/1982 - The return of SS Canberra from the Falklands conflict. The SS Canberra in May 1982 of SS Canberra, on its journey south to the Falkland Islands. It was built at the Harland and Wolff ...