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.
SS Arcadia in Vancouver in 1974
SS Arcadia's bell
SS Arcadia in Aden in March 1965
SS Orsova (1953)
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SS Orsova, was a British ocean liner, built by Vickers Armstrong in Barrow-in-Furness, England, for the Orient Steam Navigation Company for their Great Britain-to-Australia services via the Suez Canal
SS Arcadia (1953)
…Clydebank in Scotland, at an estimated cost of £5 million; her keel was laid in 1952 and she was launched on 14 May 1953, just a couple of hours after the Orsova of the associated Orient Line went down the ways at Barrow in Furness. Her maiden voyage commenced on 22 February 1954, sailing from Tilbury in the UK…
Orsova in 1966
The Orsova in 1955, when her hull was mostly golden ochre in colour