RMS Mooltan
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RMS Mooltan was an ocean liner and Royal Mail Ship of P&O. She was ordered in 1918 and completed in 1923. She served in World War II first as the armed merchant cruiser HMS Mooltan and then as a troop
Mooltan under way
SS Mooltan, 1865 lithograph by Thomas Dutton
Mooltan being assisted by the tug Carlock at Brisbane
SS Arcadia (1953)
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SS Arcadia was a passenger liner built for P&O in 1953 to service the UK to Australia route. Towards the end of her life she operated as a cruise ship, based in Sydney, until scrapped in 1979.
RMS Mooltan
…November 1953 SS Mooltan left Brisbane, Australia, on her last voyage, reaching Tilbury on 7 January 1954. Her mainly Asian crew joined the brand new RMS Arcadia three weeks later. On 23 January 1954 P&O sold Mooltan for £150,000 to the British Iron & Steel Corporation and she was taken to Metal Industries Ltd…
SS Arcadia in Vancouver in 1974
SS Arcadia's bell
SS Arcadia in Aden in March 1965