New Orcades Makes Record Trip To Australia
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Received ATonday, 10.45 p.m. MELBOURXE, Jan. 10. * The new Orient liner Orcades established a new record for a passenger ship for the vovage from Tilbury to Mejbourne. She took 2(5 days 1 hour 40 minutes, averaging 20 knots. The liner had to battle against a cyclone in the Iiulian Ocean for three days. The chairman of the Orient Line, Alr. I. C. Geddes, said air rivalry was not feared. " Unless there is a sudden development in forms of propulsion liv sea, we expect the Orcades to Ife tnod ern and attractive ftw 20 to 25 'years. Air travel to Australia cost (5d a mile In the Orcades it ranged from jn(st over ld to 11.08(1 Running costs had doulile'l since 1939 and shipbuilding costs weroup 21 to 3 times. Without food and wharf dues, running the Orcades cost £3800 daily.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 January 1949, Page 5
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