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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)