NEW ORIENT LINER.—A red-letter day in the final preparations of the new Orient liner Orcades for her trials and maiden voyage from England to Australia. Workmen at Barrow-in-Furness are seen affixing the ship’s name on the bridge. The letters will be illuminated at night. The Orcades displaces 31,000 tons and was built at a tost of £4,000,000. She will sail from London on her maiden voyage on December 14.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25609, 25 September 1948, Page 7
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69NEW ORIENT LINER.—A red-letter day in the final preparations of the new Orient liner Orcades for her trials and maiden voyage from England to Australia. Workmen at Barrow-in-Furness are seen affixing the ship’s name on the bridge. The letters will be illuminated at night. The Orcades displaces 31,000 tons and was built at a tost of £4,000,000. She will sail from London on her maiden voyage on December 14. Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25609, 25 September 1948, Page 7
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