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| | Australia's Baby Boomer Generation |
 | | Built for London-Sydney run, Himalaya departed on her maiden voyage from Tilbury to Australia on 6th October, 1949, arriving in Melbourne on the 5th November. |
 | | Himalaya had to be dry docked at Garden Island, Sydney in 1959 to repair propeller damaged in the Suez Canal. |
 | | As Himalaya, Iberia and Arcadia were all sharing this business, there was not enough to go around and Iberia and Himalaya were withdrawn and sold off for scrap, leaving the Arcadia and later the Oriana to service the South Pacific cruise market. |
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