Capturing a historic moment on board ORIANA

Available on board ORIANA for her passengers to purchase during her maiden year alongside other momentos was this particularly impressive photo taken on her Terreced decks it shows ORIANA's officers and company assmbled for her offical handing over to P&O decked out in their uniforms and ORIANA herself dressed for the occasion, they watch on as ORIANA's Captain  Commodore Gibb alongside Lord Sterling and P&O Cruise's chairman are handed over the ship's offical documents from Bernard Meyer on behalf of his shipyard after many years of planning, designing, waiting and building ORIANA was finally ready to embark on her first adventure. 

Commodore Gibb and his crew would pose again on these very decks just over a year later for a final photo celebrating the Commodore's 40 years at sea as he prepared to retire.