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SS Canberra leaving Belfast 1961 d

My grandfather, Gary Graham, worked in the Belfast shipyard of Harland & Wolff and one of the ships he worked on was the P&O liner Canberra (in my opinion one of the most beautiful ships to come out of Harland & Wolff). He took this picture on (I think) 28th April 1961, when Canberra was leaving Belfast for Southampton, to begin her maiden voyage. My mother would have been just 3 months old at this time. My grandmother Margaret can be seen in the foreground (she had beautiful red hair). Taken on Kodachrome 35mm slide film using an Ilford Sportsman camera.

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Uploaded on April 20, 2008
Taken on April 28, 1961