Editing SS Canberra (section)

===Final years===
[[File:Southampton Western Docks - geograph.org.uk - 900881 (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|SS ''Canberra'' docked at Southampton in August 1994, three years before her retirement]]
After a lengthy refit, ''Canberra'' returned to civilian service as a cruise ship. Her role in the Falklands War made her very popular with the British public, and ticket sales after her return were elevated for many years as a result. In March 1986, the [[P&O Cruises#Golden Cockerel|Golden Cockerel]] trophy was transferred from the old {{SS|Oriana|1959|2}} to the ''Canberra'' due to Oriana's retirement. Age and high running costs eventually caught up with the ''Canberra'' though, as she had much higher fuel consumption than most modern cruise ships. As refitting her to meet the new 1997 SOLAS regulations would have been very expensive, P&O opted to retire the old vessel.<ref name="ssmaritime.com">{{Cite web|url=http://ssmaritime.com/Canberra-2.htm|title = SS Canberra - Times Are 'a' Changing}}</ref>

On 25 June 1996 P&O Cruises announced that the ''Canberra'' would be retired at the end of 1997. Although [[Premier Cruise Line]] had made a bid for the old ship, P&O had already decided that they did not want ''Canberra'' to operate under a different flag and refused to sell her to Premier, as a result, Premier bought the similar looking {{SS|Rotterdam||2}}. As a replacement for the ''Canberra'', the 1988-built ''[[MV Columbus|Star Princess]]'' was transferred to P&O Cruises and was renamed ''Arcadia''. On 25 September 1997 the Golden Cockerel trophy was transferred from ''Canberra'' to the new {{MV|Oriana|1994|2}} while both ships were docked at [[Cannes]], [[France]].<ref name="ssmaritime.com"/>

''Canberra'' was withdrawn from P&O service on 30 September 1997 and sold to [[Ship breaking|ship breakers]] for scrapping on 10 October 1997, leaving for [[Gadani ship-breaking yard]], Pakistan on 31 October 1997. Her deep draft meant that she could not be beached as far as most ships, and due to her solid construction the scrapping process took nearly a year instead of the estimated three months, being totally scrapped by the end of 1998.<ref name="ssmaritime.com"/>

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