The Maiden Voyage III - Ports of Call - The Canary Islands

A short overnight journey from Funchal brought ORIANA to the first of her two calls in the Canary Islands Santa Cruz, Tenerife and 14th April and then on then on the 15th Lanzarote where for the first time she would be on anchor and making use of her tenders.
Both ports being well known to P&O's passengers and for ORIANA ports she would visit often in the years to come.

  ORIANA arrives in Tenerife 23/12/2009

While ORIANA was for the first time entering far off ports on board  200 or so of those on board were veterans from ORIANA's namesake  having cruised on the older ship many times over the years and between a lifetime of memories from days and nights spent on her.

As a nod to the old liner and to give a chance for memories to be shared and to look at each others momentos from her a get together was arranged in The Curzon Room, Commodore Gibb himself even joining in to share his stories and listen others.

One of the passengers familiar with the former ORIANA was Jack Crawford who back in the late 1950's had worked on the design of the ship and gave a short interview comparing the two ships.