Captain Robert Camby will lead the team responsible for onboard operations on P&O Cruises’ Arvia, which will enter service in December 2022.
He will bring out Arvia from the Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany to its home port of Southampton – from where the ship will sail its inaugural winter cruises before re-positioning to Barbados for its first series of Caribbean fly-cruises.
Camby joined the P&O Princess Cruises Cadet programme in 1995 and started his studies as a deck cadet at South Shields Nautical College.
His first ship was SS Canberra and in 2005 Camby was appointed as navigator on Cunard’s flagship Queen Mary 2, becoming deputy captain in June 2008.
In December 2011 he was promoted to captain, taking his first command of Oriana in January 2012.
Since then, he has commanded Azura, Arcadia, Aurora, Oceana, Ventura, Britannia, Queen Victoria, Queen Mary 2 and most recently Iona.
He lives in Warwickshire with his wife Danni and their two boys Austin and Jenson.
Captain Camby said: “After 26 years with the company I feel so privileged to command P&O Cruises’ Arvia.”
Arvia, similar to sister ship Iona, will be the next in P&O Cruises’ Excel-class generation of the first British cruise ships to be powered by LNG (liquefied natural gas).
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