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SS Iberia (1954)
SS ''Iberia'' was an ocean liner completed in 1954 for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). Along with her fleetmates ''Himalaya'', ''Arcadia'' and ''Chusan'', ''Iberia'' mainly provided passenger service between the United Kingdom and Australasia.
''Iberia'' was constructed at the Belfast shipyard of Harland and Wolff and originally provided service between London and Sydney via the Suez Canal. Later, ''Iberia'' went on to carry passengers across the Pacific Ocean, as far as San Francisco and back to the UK via the Panama Canal. ''Iberia'' eventually ran into numerous problems, including collisions with other ships, frequent machinery breakdowns, and fuel leaks. For this reason, ''Iberia'' was taken out of service in 1972, a full year before her sister ships were decommissioned; all of them were scrapped at a breaker in southern Taiwan.
==Background and construction==
During World War II, several passenger ships of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company had been sunk carrying troops for the Allies. After the war, four ships were commissioned by P&O to provide replacements for the lost ships. Of these, ''Iberia'' was the last to be constructed, ordered in late 1951, a few months after her near sister ''Arcadia''. The keel of ''Iberia'' was laid down in Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast, Northern Ireland on February 8, 1952. Her name was derived from an earlier ship that was built around 1833, in turn named after the Iberian Peninsula, the westernmost portion of the European continent. ''Iberia'' was launched on January 21, 1954, underwent sea trials in early September, and began sailing for P&O on September 10.
''Iberia'' was , long with a beam of . Her passenger capacity was roughly 1,414, with 679 in first class and 735 in second (tourist) class. Her crew numbered 711, and cargo capacity was approximately . There were twelve main lifeboats, with six on either side of the top deck. ''Iberia'' had twin single-reduction geared steam turbines and twin propellers rated at 42,500 horsepower each, that could power the ship at a speed of with a normal operating speed of .
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