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SS Arcadia's bell. The Arcadia was built for P&O by John Brown & Company at 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.
P&O (in full, The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company [1]) was a British shipping and logistics company dating from the early 19th century. Formerly a public company, it was sold to DP World in March 2006 for £3.9 billion.
Faced with unprofitable around-the-world passenger routes, the P&O white hulled Oriana was operated as a full-time cruise ship from 1973. Between 1981 and her retirement from service five years later, Oriana was based at Sydney, Australia , operating to Pacific Ocean and South-East Asian ports.
The Orsova in 1955, when her hull was mostly golden ochre in colour. SS Orsova, was a British ocean liner, built by Vickers Armstrong in Barrow-in-Furness, England, for the Orient Steam Navigation Company (Orient Line) for their Great Britain-to-Australia services via the Suez Canal.
SS Iberia was an ocean liner completed in 1954 for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). Along with her fleetmates Himalaya , Arcadia and Chusan , Iberia mainly provided passenger service between the United Kingdom and Australasia .
The number of first class single cabins and special suites was reduced, crew quarters were enlarged and there were now two-berth cabins for most crew. [53] Post-war shortages of essential materials delayed her refit, [ 51 ] and Vickers-Armstrongs it was not until 29 May 1947 that Vickers-Armstrongs returned her to P&O. [ 4 ]
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SS Aden was a P&O cargo ship that was built in England in 1892. She was wrecked in the Indian Ocean in 1897, with the loss of 78 lives. She was the second of three P&O steamships to be named after the British Aden Colony. The first was launched in 1856 as Delta, completed as Aden, and hulked in 1875. [1]