THE NEW ORCADES
SERVICE BY CHRISTMAS COST EXCEEDS £4,000,000 (P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 10. The new 31,000-ton liner Orcades should be handed over to the Orient Line from the builders by the middle of October and should have called at each of her Australian ports before Christmas. This advice has been received by the New Zealand agents of the Orient Line, the Union Steam Ship Company, in Wellington. The Orcades is expected to have left the Vickers yards at Barrow-in-Furness by September 22, after which she will dock at Belfast before her trials in the Irish Sea. The Orcades’ keel was laid down in September, 1945. The actucl construction time will have been three years and the cost will be over £4,000,000 (N.Z.) compared with the original estimates of two years and £2,500,000 fN.Z.) She is the first passenger vessel laid down by any country since the war and will be able to carry 6000 passengers in four voyages a year.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22582, 10 March 1948, Page 6
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160THE NEW ORCADES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22582, 10 March 1948, Page 6
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