Orcades
1948
(Albatros AL-260)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 28,472 tons
- Dimensions: 711 x 93 x 31 ft.
- Machinery: Geared steam turbines, twin screw, 42,500 shp = 22 knots
- Passengers: 1545 (773 first class, 772 tourist class)
- Crew: 608
- Builder: Vickers-Armstrong Shipbuilders, Limited, Barrow-in-Furness, England, 1948
- Service: Built for Orient Line (British flag). Maiden voyage 14 Dec 1948 to Australia with passage time of 28 days (36 days for pre-war ships) and four round trips per year. London-Panama-San Francisco-Vancouver-Auckland-Sydney-Suez-London cruise 1955. Placed on Australia-Transpacific service-San Francisco-Vancouver route 1958; refit to 28,396 tons, 631 first class and 734 tourist class capacity in 1959. Transferred to P&O-Orient Lines, 1960; then to P&O Lines, 1966. England-Australia and later, England-around-the-world service. Converted to one-class vessel for 1,635 passengers in 1964. Laid up at Southampton Oct 1972. Scrapped on Taiwan, 1973.
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