
Britain’s Newest Passenger Liner Prepares For Maiden Voyage The £ 14, 000 “oriana”.

by Retro Images Archive
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Britain’s Newest Passenger Liner Prepares For Maiden Voyage The £ 14, 000 “oriana”.
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Retro Images Archive
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The new luxurious P. And O. Liner ORIANA (40, 000 tons) - is now at Southampton preparing for her maiden voyage to Australia and north America. The ORIANA is the biggest passenger liner over to be launched in England - and cost £14,000,000. She will be the most up-to-date passenger liner in the world today. All loading and unloading is by push-button controlled elevators - and she is fitted with a remarkable automatic pumping system which - by forcing water through the ship from one side to the other - below the water line enables her to be cashed in to any quay - in any part of the world-TV systems which enables her to receive programmes any system - at whichever country she visits - be having her own closed circuit system. KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS: Flood lit view of the alongside the quay at Southampton - as she prepared for her maiden voyage.
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April 28th, 2014
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