MV Aurora is a cruise ship of the P&O Cruises fleet. The ship was built by Meyer Werft at their shipyard in Papenburg, Germany. At over 76,000 tonnes, Aurora is the smallest and oldest of seven ships currently in service with P&O Cruises. She officially entered service with the company in April 2000 and was named by Anne, Princess Royal in Southampton, United Kingdom. Aurora was refitted in 2014, during which the ship was the first of P&O's ships to receive an updated British Union flag design on her bow and her funnel repainted from yellow to blue.
Aurora at anchor in the Santorini basin, showing post 2014 livery.
Aurora's Atrium
Aurora docked in Dubrovnik in pre 2014 livery.
MV Aurora moored adjacent to the Gibraltar Cruise Terminal on the Western Arm of the North Mole in Gibraltar Harbour.
P&O Cruises is a British cruise line based at Carnival House in Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. It was originally a subsidiary of the freight transport company P&O and was founded in 1977. Along with P&O Cruises Australia, another former subsidiary of P&O, it has the oldest heritage of any cruise line in the world, dating to P&O's first passenger operations in 1837.
Canberra of 1961 in Ponta Delgada, Azores in 1984
Oriana of 1995 at Las Palmas, Gran Canaria in 2003
Britannia of 2015 in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2019, bearing the company's post-2014 livery
Image: Aurora departing Tallinn 29 May 2016 (cropped)
