I visited Gadani beach in 1989, fascinating place. Greeting from Australia.

I'm in the U.S. and have never been aboard or even seen a liner in real life, but I love ocean liners and the Canberra is special to me because she not only started service in the year I was born, but had her sea trials on the day I was born.

I've never come across such media sensitivity to the powerful attachment some people (like me) have for ocean liners. I thought they might be joking, but no, even the Pakistanis in Gadani found their job a melancholy task. There's something haunting about a liner going to the breakers with her band's instruments still on the stage.

It broke my heart to see the Ship I remember being launched being broken up. I followed this and every other P&) - Orient Liner during their service. My dad was a marine Engineer and we sailed o the Orient Line vessels in 1961. Many of my family members emigrated to Australia on board Canberra. There will never be another like her.

Absolutely brilliant photography. Very atmospheric, but so sad and pathetic that it should all have ended like this. Such happy times working on Canberra, never to be forgotten memories of my life onboard.

Incredibly sad to see this, I travelled to England and back to Australia many years ago on her. Lovely ship.

I remember Deputy Captain Nick Carlton showing me the chart for Gadani and saying "She won't get near the beach....she'll grind to a halt about (jabbing the chart) here..." But the breakers insisted that they knew best.......

A great sadness for me personally grew up on that ship from a boy to teen to an adult.Cruised on her so many times.Great ship that had a personality of its own and a fantastic comradely with returning passengers and crew.We always said after a day in port “ it’s nice to be home”

Sad to see, But happy she was defiant to the end with her deep draught ,and as the commentator said she was too well built, not the cheap shite we have today. I am laughing out loud that they are having trouble dismantling her, testiment to when this nation built ships with pride and sheer guts.

Very sad indeed. I saw her launched and many times afterwards. Ex seaman.

Many in the Sub Continent still have that attachment to British Royalty, many years after independence. Sad end for a once proud ship that served her country with dignity and pride.

weird watching them dig up the deck where i was half drunk with a Lay around my neck, for "island night" in the Pacific

Rediscovered footage of the Canberra's scrapping.

Can I buy memorabilia from Canberra

that was a part of a turbine, hey?

I don’t know why they didn’t keep her; she was history .

@gdj6298

7 ай бұрын

She was lacking in facilities that people were starting to expect as standard; her boilers had to be continually nursed by a specialist team; and there were new SOLAS requirements coming into play shortly after her retirement date that would have been expensive/difficult/impossible to implement. And don't forget that, even if she was a static exhibit, that's still a LOT of money in ongoing maintenance.

@heartwilson.8943

7 ай бұрын

@@gdj6298 I was lucky as I got to see in restricted places ( boiler room etc ) as my father worked on her in the merchant navy in the early 70s . The fact that it was a Liner makes it even more regal and rare - there’s only one Liner left in the world now - The QM2 which I’ve been lucky to sail on her too . I’m surprised the UK didn’t keep her as a memorial / tribute regarding the Falklands - she was a maritime feat of engineering at the time .