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The classic P & O passenger liner/cruise ship SS Canberra. Became ingrained in the public psyche following the Falklands War and known affectionately as 'The Great White Whale.

She was a twin screw steam turbo-electric vessel with machinery aft. This is the main engine control position at the forward end of the engine room and the big green cylindrical object is one of the main alternators - 32 MVA, built by AEI and driven by a single casing steam turbine at the aft end. The three water tube boilers were further aft below the twin funnels and the walkway from engines to boilers passed between the top ends of the two large propulsion motors. The vessel was withdrawn later the same year and ignominiously scrapped on an Asian beach.