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Welcome to our RMS Orcades website celebrating this magnificent ship. The Orcades was a contemporary of P&O's Himalaya. She was the first ocean liner built for Orient Line after the Second World War in 1948 and had a long and varied career until withdrawn from service and scrapped in 1973.

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Her Regular Service Route: Great Britain to Australia via the Suez Canal

London (Tilbury Docks) to Gibraltar, Naples, Port Said, Suez Canal, Aden, Colombo, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland "Australia Mail" service.

"THE AUSTRALIA MAIL SERVICE"

THE ORIENT STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LONDON

(ORIENT LINE)


This Website is based on content from the SS Maritime website (www.ssmaritime.com) with the kind permission of Reuben Goossens


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