
The P&O Iberia was a British ocean liner built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, Northern Ireland, for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Completed in 1954, Iberia was one of four ships commissioned by P&O to replace vessels lost during World War II. She was launched on January 21, 1954, by Lady McGrigor, wife of First Sea Lord Rhoderick McGrigor, and began her maiden voyage on September 28, 1954, from London to Sydney via the Suez Canal.