Look at Life Vol 01 Transport Shape of a Ship 1960

Taking a look at the big new liners being built including the Canberra and how their shape is changing plus a review of the slump affecting cargo shipping and the exciting future of air freight.

[@LordVikingLive]

RMS Windsor Castle scrapped in 2005... RMS Amazon turned into a car transporter ship named Akarita in 1968.. Whereabouts unknown.. considered lost.. RMS Canberra scrapped at Gadani ship-breaking yard, Pakistan, 1997-1998..

[@4jp]

Amazon was transferred to Shaw Savill Line in 1968 for passenger service as Akaroa. It was not converted to hauling cars until 1971. Scrapped 1982.

[@xr6lad]

Oriana caught in a storm in 2004, scraped in 2005. Stopped sailing for P&O/Orient Lines 1986 then sold to various businesses.

[@yanikkunitsin1466]

Why so depressive? Why not passenger service for old people? "Last Harbour" would my choice of a name for a shipline

[@andrewofford1533]

Don't forget, Canberra was used to take members of the Army, to the Falkland Islands, during the war there.

[@nigelh3253]

Tim Turner doesn't get the credit at the beginning for narration, which happens in later episodes.

[@ianhudson2193]

Well..... Peter Maisefield was bang on the money...

[@weerobot]

Ship Launch Intro Epic...

[@yan24to]

Britain was great.

[@andrewallen9993]

Britain certainly cannot do this anymore.

[@MrSvenovitch]

Ah the film series about the twilight of a good era...oh well, all down the tubes now. Get ready for some more refugees.

[@yanikkunitsin1466]

"A rank organisation" A bit too self-depricating