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ORTONA (1899)
Service dates: 1899-1917
Official number: 110613
Shipping lines: ORIENT STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.; ORIENT LINE
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 10.07.1899
- Launched.
- 26.10.1899
- Registered at Liverpool as Ortona for Pacific Steam Navigation Company, Liverpool. The last ship Pacific Steam had built for the Australian run.
- 24.11.1899
- First voyage London/Australia, on joint Orient Steam Navigation/ Pacific Steam Navigation Company service.
- 09/12.1902
- Boer War transport.
- 08.05.1906
- Sold to Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, London.
- 15.05.1906
- Registered at London.
- 30.04.1909
- Final London/Australia voyage on Orient-RMSPC joint service, then transferred to RMSP’s UK/West Indies service.
- 1910
- Sent to Harland & Wolff, Belfast for conversion into a 320-capacity cruise-ship. New tonnage 8,939 gross, 4,934 net.
- 21.09.1910
- Renamed Arcadian.
- 23.09.1911
- Registered at Belfast.
- 01.1912
- First cruise as the world’s largest full-time cruise-ship.
- 15.04.1917
- Torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UC74 near Milo Island, Greece in position 36°50’N-24°50’E on voyage Salonica/Alexandra with troops. 277 lives were lost.