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ORCADES (1906)
Service dates: 1919-1925
Official number: 143122
Shipping lines: ORIENT STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.; ORIENT LINE
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 12.05.1906
- Launched.
- 09.08.1906
- Completed as Prinz Ludwig for Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen.
- 16.08.1906
- Maiden voyage was Bremerhaven/Far East.
- 27.03.1919
- Surrendered to the British Government as war reparation.
- 01.04.1919
- Registered owner The Shipping Controller, London (The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd, managers).
- 1920
- Management transferred to Orient Steam Navigation Company Ltd, London.
- 21.03.1921
- She was sold to the Orient Steam Navigation Company Ltd and renamed Orcades.
- 08.10.1921
- Made her first voyage from UK/Australia.
- 20.09.1924
- Made her last Australian sailing.
- 30.03.1925
- Sold to Stern Aktiengeselschaft, Bremen, to be broken up.
- 03.04.1925
- Left London in tow for Bremen.
- 1926
- Broken up.