Lisbon farewell

ORIANA seen heading upstream in the river Tagus, early in the morning of 12th June 2019, as she was arriving for her 125th and last call in the port of Lisbon.
The Portuguese capital was one of the fortunate destinations included on her maiden voyage 20 years ago, as ORIANA made her inaugural call in Lisbon on the 20th April 1995, a special occasion which we recall in the video bellow, of the warm welcome given by the locals and Commodore Gibb showing the brand new P&O flagship to the local authorities. In the end, it's also possible to watch her departure from a bridge perspective, with the Commodore having a different opinion than of the harbour pilot, as to the best course to take downstream.

Much like the many other ports where ORIANA has called in a regular basis, Lisbon will keep many good memories of this former P&O and Britain's flagship, we can highlight here one of the meetings with the QUEEN MARY 2, on 9th August 2006, and when the Cunarder left the Alcântara cruise terminal and headed further upstream just to salute ORIANA, before starting her journey down to the open sea.
For our post on that particular day click here.

Special thanks to Luís M. Correia (Ships & the Sea), for his contribution.