The Maiden Voyage V - A Maiden Wedding

Leaving Africa behind ORIANA next arrived at Gibraltar on the 18th April, for her passengers a home from home.
Entering the Gibraltar strait at 6am and boarding the pilot shortly after ORIANA continued her course where she arrived at her berth at 9:01 am.
For two of her passengers however instead of a typical day ashore exploring they were instead getting married with the rest of the cruise serving as their honeymoon
There has always been a romantic side to ships and it could truly be said that ORIANA's career from the start was full of romance.

Departing Gibraltar ORIANA again headed north for her last two ports of call, having called first in the   "Cruise Capital of Portugal" she now called at the mainland.
Firstly Praia Da Rocha on the Algarve on the 19th where she spend the day anchored off the coast and the finally on the 20th ORIANA sailed up the Tagus to the Portuguese capital Lisbon.
P&O's ties to the city had began early in the company's life with it being a major port on the regular mail route their liners of time were engaged in, by the 1920's the authorities had even agreed to extend one of the berths to accommodate the new class of liners which were then being built,
Later still ORIANA's namesake would visit the city many time over the years including during her shakedown cruise in November 1960 prior to her own Maiden Voyage.

With her last port of call of the cruise behind her ORIANA set off for home.