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| Does anyone out there remember the entertainer Colin Hindmarsh from the Canberra days? Colin worked aboard Canberra in the 1980s. I would be interested to hear from anyone - particularly if you have a recording of Colin's gigs aboard Canberra (video, cine etc). Many thanks. Jan
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Senior Captain
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Oh Yes...What a character he was....Even now, every-time I hear 'Brown girl in the ring' or 'Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think' I smile and remember Colin.
Sad to say that he passed away sometime in the mid/ late 90's...
God bless Colin!
Bruce
Previous Ships - Canberra, Oriana, Arcadia, Victoria, Oceana, OV, Norweigan Gem, Ventura Future Cruises - Oceana Oct 09, Oriana Apr 10
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| Sadly before my cruising days, but I remember seeing the ship often & thinking what a unique shape. People always speak fondly of her.
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| JTD: Not all people. She looked very graceful from the outside but was pretty poor on the inside compared with "the blocks of flats" today.
Derek “The Monocled Mutineer” Kane
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| All this talk takes me back to my first cruise in 1980 which was on Canberra (my first love, ship wise), at the time at 45,000 tons, she was the second largest operational Cruise Liner in the world only to the QE2 (69.000 tons) The SS France at the time (66,000 tons) was in mothballs waiting for a buyer. Canberra was a similar size ship (weight wise) to today's Artemis, although she was significantly longer but thinner. How things have moved onwards and upwards to today's monsters. DK is quite right about her interior which was nothing like today's standards, but her lines were sheer poetry and well ahead of her time with her style. Looking towards her stern from the Lido Pool and over the Alice Springs Pool she somehow resembled the tiered stern that many current P&O Cruisers love today on Oriana and Aurora. Canberra was born and died in the same years as Princess Diana (1961 - 1997) I wonder if P&O would consider another Canberra, when and if a new ship is introduced to replace Artemis? That would then have the whole of the Fleet ending in "A". We have had several Oriana's and Arcadia's, so why not P&O? X920 is only 21 days away, roll on. Happy Cruising everyone. Regards. Alan (D n A)
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2nd Officer
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| She was a great ship frendley old but you had fun with waiters like Gary in the crows nest great entertenment for both adult and children i can remember in the 1980 when the captain would come down and join in with the children in the pool with the greasy pole and we had great late night shows in the night club and it was still going on untill the small hours of the morning and that was most nights on a 16 night cruise we would have a cricket cruise
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