So well done! Great effort! Amazing footage! Being a child of the 50s and 60s, born and raised in Vancouver, in a house with a wonderful view of the P&O Liners passing into and out of the harbor. Many times saw the likes of Oronsay, Arcadia, Oriana, Canberra and others, and longed to travel on one of them. Finally, in 1969 at the age of 19, I decided it was time, and I took myself on the Canberra, on a 25 day voyage to Southampton, and remained in Europe and Britain for 6 years. One of the most vivid memories of my entire life, travelling on that voyage. Knowing that the years of the ships as transporting immigrants and emigrants were coming to a close. Absolutely love your videos!

A wonderful and important documentary of the end of passenger ships. Thank goodness have the internet to preserve this important and wonderful era. Thank you.

Thank you for posting these wonderful footages of the classic old liners of a bygone era.

I'm hooked on these videos now! Super interesting!

Thank you for putting these wonderful films together in this video. My dad sailed to war on the Orion and we were lucky enough to see her berthed at Station Pier (Port Melbourne) in the early 60s. My second memory is of the beautiful Oronsay. I was a passenger in 1973 from Southampton to Sydney. It was a trip to remember not least because I met my wonderful husband of 45 years during the voyage. He was a PRS

beautiful times when i was on ORIANA as a waiter thank you so much for the films cheers from trev

Lovely piece of nostalgia. i remember most of these P&O boats in Fremantle when i was a boy.

Wonderful - I knew so many of these ships, and travelled and worked on several too : Orcades, Oronsay, Oriana, Canberra, Arcadia, Uganda

I applaud your effort.......Very well done and comprehensive.......You really get a feel for these ships

Most enjoyable. Thank you.

The positive attitude of all crew towards well behaved migrant children as shown at the 10:10 minute mark was not an isolated incident posed for the camera. I spent every morning for 5 weeks on my journey to Australia, following the engineer's assistant around the decks and inside the vast funnels of our ship as he oiled the gears of the ventilation fans which provided fresh air into the windowless cabins of the ship's interior. I was a nobody, nothing special, but I had asked questions and expressed curiosity about his job, so he happily showed me what was entailed. At the end of the journey, he presented my sister and I with a specially printed card with his and our names on it in memory of our journey. We have it in our family album, from 1952 when I was seven years old.

My dad was a bosun with the P&O line, my mum was a stewardess on one liner, she met my dad and they were married in Melbourne in 1951 and sailed back home and I was born in 1952, I like to think I was conceived on a romantic trip home, hahaha! I have been on most of the liners at some point, my brother worked on a few of them later as a steward. I went to the HMS Worcester and P&O offered me a position as a navigating apprentice, I declined and went with The Scottish Ship Management (Hungry Hogarths merged with Lyles). Being at sea going to exotic places as a teenager, and paid for it too, some job!

Very good chance I was on the Ruahine when this film was shot wonderful memories of a great ship to work on

We emigrated to New Zealand on the Orion in 1962, her second to last voyage to NZ. Left Tilbury 31st March. Arrived in Wellington 7th May. Great excitement for a twelve year old.

I was a waiter on the Canberra in the 60s, fond memories

I have a miniature Life Ring from SS Canberra. It was bought by my Grand Parents, who were cruising to Medierra, on the day that I was born. (The "7" of 1967 is smugged as the ship had sailed in 1966!)

Compelling content . Thank you for posting sir.

My dad was on Orion when he was sent to North Africa in 1940 or 1941. He would never have been at sea before. We came to Australia in 1961 on Fairsky. One day we went to Station Pier to see Fairsky in port and to his surprise the Orion was in port at the opposite berth.

I sailed on the Canberra in 1973 to see a total solar eclipse of the coast of Africa. I have many photos and videos of that trip... It was wonderful sailing out of NYC as the world trade towers were being built.

5:48 RMS Otranto Whistle

Canberra's foghorn was visceral!

My father served in Strathnaver from 1931-1946 as steward then chief steward

Went out to Australia on the Strathnaver in 1960 what a great ship lots of fun on board, as children we had the run of the ship lol we used to slide down the laundry shutes , and sitting on deckchairs slidding backwards and forewards as we went across the Great Australian Bite , yes we rolled a bit , we saw no fear , one day Everyone looking for my brother and myself when we finally appeared we had been to church lol didnt even know what church was then . A sad end to a great ship whewn they cut her up

Older ships were prettier compare to new ships nowadays. Too bad there are no footage that shown the interior :(

If these ships had been equipped/re-equipped with Rankine reheat system boiler/turbines, where the steam is superheated twice and efficiency is nearly the equivalent of a Diesel engine, most need not have been retired en masse in 1974 when oil became expensive.

34:22 SS strathmore whistle!

Nice video. I enjoy cruising and avoid the big mega ships but even the small 100t ships I cruise on dwarf these old ladies

29:26 who saw a dead body there?

ORIANA was,at 41,915 tons,the largest passenger ship ever built in an English shipyard

Veri good old time😢

Many thanks

beatiful song, can i have the name?

0:21 SS canberra horn

Wonderful films - soothing voice - and background music - but one question - when he refers to Captain 'Woof Woof' Riddersale (?sp) who is he referring to? Does anyone know? Subscriber 728.

One of the flags at 15:20 is odd. The yellow is a request for free pratique. The multi colored flag simply says "I need a tug". But the last one, the red flag, hmm. That is the international symbol for a ship carrying dangerous cargo! You can see that one fly on warships in naval ports when they take on live ammunition, for example. But what on earth is Oronsay carrying?

The Skye Boat song

5:48

HMS Port?

Need water's of demark holland sovgerin watersof refitting of the as united states of golden gliden age

@ 13.05 ' the ship is in Malta' .. like fuck it is,,,,who said comprehensive ?