In Focus: ORIANA's last call at Gibraltar

As ORIANA's time with P&O Cruises rapidly reaches it's end all of her remaining cruises bring a farewell to ports she has visited many times over the past 24 years and yesterday (the 26th May as this is being written) ORIANA made her last call at Gibralter.
ORIANA's maiden call at the Overseas Territory was during her Maiden Voyage and brought her first wedding celebrations as two of her passengers George and Tracy Clifton were married while ashore  and enjoyed the rest of the voyage as their Honeymoon alongside their 2 children.
For George it was fitting way to celebrate his special day as he had trained with P&O as engineer partially aboard the old ORIANA.

24 years later ORIANA bid farewell to the port for the last and once again we extend our thanks to Coxswain Craig Duggan for sending us photos taken from ORIANA during her departure.

Ships anchored at Gibraltar, the last time this familar sight will be seen from ORIANA

As another chapter of ORIANA's career came to close, in a fitting farewell a fireboat escorted out the port echoing the warm the welcome she had recieved almost a lifetime ago.

A fireboat farewell for the First Lady of the P&O Cruises

ORIANA is presently en route Southampton where she will arrive on the 30th May.
On her next cruise she will make perhaps her most poignant farewell to Funchal, Madeira, the first landfall she made on the 24 year adventure which has been her career.
Photos: Craig Duggan