Look at Life - Shape of a Ship - Canberra Cruiseship - 1960

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Look at Life - Shape of a Ship - Canberra Cruiseship - 1960
This video takes a look at the big new liners being built during 1960.
From the Look at Life - Series - this is from Volume One - Transport.
It shows the Windsor Castle, Oriana, Amazon being launched.
Queen Elizabeth, Rotterdam.
Canberra being built in Belfast and shows design of the ship.
A few other ships are shown including a “Star” cargo ship.
US Submarine – SkipJack.
British Commonwealth plane and NRDC Hovercraft.

Information about the above ships follows:

Windsor Castle was launched at Birkenhead on 23 June 1959 and completed 12 months later.
Owner – Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company
37640 grt
Length – 783 ft Beam – 93 ft Draught – 32 ft
Installed power – 49,000shp
Speed - 22.5 knots (service speed – 23.5 knots maximum)
Capacity - 191 1st class – 591 tourist class
Crew - 475
Out of service – 19 September 1977 Sold to Yiannis Latsis of Greece. And renamed Margarita L
Scrapped – 18 August 2005

Oriana was launched on 3 November 1959 and completed in 1960 at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow in Furness Cumbria. Cost £12.5m
Owner – Orient Steam Navigation Company 1960-1966
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) 1966-1986
41910grt
Length – 804 ft Beam – 97 ft Draught – 32 ft
Installed power – 80,000 horsepower
Speed – Trials – 30.6 knots Service – 27.5 knots
Capacity – 638 1st Class ; 1496 – Tourist Class (1973 – 1750 one class)
Crew – 980 (1973 – 780)
Out of service 27 March 1986
Converted into a hotel ship in 1986. Service ended after the ship sank at her berth after a storm in 2004 and was scrapped post refloating.

Amazon – No information known about this ship.

Canberra was launched at Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Belfast on 16 March 1960 and completed in May 1961. Cost £17 million
Owner – P & O 1988-1991; P & O Lines (Shipowners) Ltd 1991-1997; Abbey National March Leasing (1) Ltd (Leased back to P & O)
Tonnage – 1961 – 45270grt ; 1962 – 45733grt; 1968 – 44807grt; 1994 – 49073grt
Length – 820 ft Beam – 103 ft Draught – 35.5 ft
Speed - Trials – 29.2 knots ; Service – 27.5 knots (1961-73); 23.5 knots (1973-97)
Capacity – 150,000 cubic feet of cargo
Complement – 548 1st Class ; 1690 Tourist Class (1961-73)
1737 One Class (1973-97)
Crew – 900 (1961-73); 795 (1973-97)
Out of Service – 10-31 October 1997 (Final Voyage)
Scrapped in Pakistan 1997-1998

Canberra had a bulbous bow, two sets of stabilizers and two funnels side-by-side. The Lifeboats, which were made from glass fibre, were placed three decks lower than usual for ships of her type, and were recessed into the hull to allow improved view from the passenger decks

Rotterdam was launched in Rotterdam on 13 September 1958 at a cost of $(US) 30 million.
Owner – Holland America Line (1959 – 1997) Premier Cruises (1997-2000)
No Owner (2000-2003) ; Rotterdam Drydock Company (2003-2005)
De Rotterdam BV (2005-2013) WestCord Hotels (2013-present)
Name – Rotterdam (1959-1997) Rembrandt (1997-2003) ; Rotterdam (2004-present)
Tonnage – 38545grt
Length – 748ft Beam – 94ft Draught – 29.6ft
Installed Power – 38,000 horsepower
Speed – 21.5 knots
Capacity – 1456 passengers
Crew – 776 Officers and Crew
In Service – 1959 – 2000
Out of Service – 21 September 2000
Hotel – 15 February 2010 – Rotterdam

USS Skipjack (SSN-585) - the lead ship of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named after the Skipjack Tuna.
Launched in 1958 and commissioned on 15 April 1959.
Decommissioned on 19 April 1990
Length – 251 ft Beam – 31 ft Draught – 29 ft
Speed – 20 knots (official); 31 knots (theoretical)
Compliment – 93 Officers and men.

Other vessels are shown in the video but the names be seen – if any viewers know the names please mention them in the comments section below.

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