Canberra: tourist class playroom
Colour illustration depicting the tourist class playroom for young travellers on board P&O's superliner Canberra around the time of her maiden voyage to Sydney, Australia in 1961. Designed by London architect John Wright, and with murals by Mary Fedden, the nursery featured a magnetic wall with letters and numbers. Canberra was the biggest ship to be built by Harland and Wolff shipyard since White Star's Britannic in 1914
Picture No
10217271
Media ID
45993017
Size
6400px x 3796px
(2.5MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
The Illustrated London News. 1961. P.iv top. By H. J. Neave
Date
1961
