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Title: SS Canberra, Port of Los Angeles
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Hankey, Roy
Date Created and/or Issued: 1967
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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The SS Canberra operated as an ocean liner for the P&O fleet from 1961-1997. Named after Canberra, the federal capitol of Australia, she was launched on March 16, 1960. In addition to her ocean liner service, she appeared in the 1971 James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever, and served as a troopship in 1982 during the Falklands War. She was withdrawn from service on September 30, 1997 and was scrapped by the end of 1998.
The British ocean liner, SS Canberra, as she departs the Port of Los Angeles. Several smaller boats are in the vicinity, July 1967.
Type: image
Format: 1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm.
Photographic color slides
Identifier: 00163625
Roy Hankey Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_b123_f4_s16
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/134804
Subject: Passenger ships
Ocean liners
Boats and boating
Palms
Harbors
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.)
Pacific Ocean
Time Period: 1961-1970
Source: Hankey, Roy.

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