mate of late teen days arrvintg from Aus for overnight stay tomorrow
he.another and i forunate to take a last cruise on the Arcadia to FIJI mid 70s
a couple of weeks holiday on untouched tropical island,then fly home
combining old transport wirth modern
a little different to cruse ships these days
Name: SS Arcadia
Owner: P&O
Port of registry: London, United Kingdom
Route: UK/Australia, and cruising
Passengers:
1954: 670 1st class, 735 Tourist class
1973: 1,350 open class
Crew: 716
Notes: Sister ship: SS Iberia
SS Arcadia was a passenger liner built for P&O in 1953 to service the UK to Australia route. Towards the end of her life she operated as a cruise ship, based in Sydney, until scrapped in 1979.
This mix of liner and cruise trade was expanded in 1959 when Arcadia made her first cruise voyage from an Australian port, sailing from Sydney on a short cruise in November and then to San Francisco in December.
As the number of passengers travelling by ship to Australia declined due to growth in air travel, P&O was expanding its cruise network. In 1959, Arcadia was refitted (with refurbished cabins and air-conditioning extended to all the accommodation) and throughout the 1960s continued the pattern of line voyages interspersed with cruises from Britain and Australia, including trans-Pacific routes,
In 1975 Arcadia moved its base to Australia (replacing the Himalaya), making a final return trip to Britain and then cruising Asia-Pacific routes until in February 1979 she was delivered to a firm in Taiwan to be scrapped.
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