ORIANA in Sidney, Australia

The brand new S.S. ORIANA arriving at Sidney, Australia, for the first time on 30 December 1960 on another set of photographs from the collection of Michael Sutcliffe.
At the time ORIANA was the largest passenger ship purpose built for the Europe - Australia service and also the fastest ith a regular cruising speed of 27 knots. She was joinned by CANBERRA in 1961.

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ORIANA in Black & White

The magnificent ORIANA of 1960 was the last passenger liner built for the famous Orient Line. See some stunning ORIANA photos from the collection of our friend Michael Sutcliffe...

Photos of ORIANA undergoing sea trials prior to delivery by Vickers to the Orient Line. 

Her shake down cruise in November 1960 was a special short cruise from Southampton to Lisbon and back.

Orient Line passenger liners had their hulls painted in very original "corn colour", a spectacular shade of yellow created by Laurence Dunn for the ORION of 1935. That feature was lost when the Orient fleet was absorbed into the P&O-Orient Line and later in P&O Lines... By now only Carnival UK is left of all those great P&O Group liner companies...

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ORCADES in the river Thames

Orient Line official photograph of the passenger liner ORCADES taken on the Thames estuary in 1959 by Frederick J. Armes as seen on the picture's reverse.
Return of the photograph was requested by the company's public relations office...
Many years later Carnival Cruise Lines sent me several colour slides of their then new cruise ship FANTASY for an article and later they also sent a letter asking for the return of the material.
It was all before the revolution in photography into the digital world... Now you only have to download a file. However authors are still copyright owners and their rights should be respected.
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ORCADES in Sydney

ORCADES of 1948, the first of the Orient Line post-WW2 replacement new ships, leaving Sydney from Berth 13 Pyrmont in original Orient Line colours.

She used the same basic hull as P&O HIMALAYA, but had otherwise a very different profile with a single tripod mast and typical Orient funnel. She was followed by ORONSAY and ORSOVA, the first mastless passenger liner, and the ORIANA in 1960.
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LMC favorite Liners: ORIANA of 1960

ORIANA of 1960, the final liner built for Orient Line is one of my really favorite ships. Although she was not as lucky as her rival CANBERRA she was a very distinctive ship and if I had to choose between the two, it was ORIANA, no second chance.
This series of photos sent by a very special friend were taken on ORIANA's arrival in Sydney on 30 December 1960. She was brand new by then and it was the maiden arrival in Sydney.
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ORONTES underway 1958

The RMS ORONTES looking just beautiful photographed underway at sea from another Orient Line ship by Michael Sutcliffe. The location was the Indian Ocean and the year 1958. Note the Blue Ensign. Those meetings of fleet mates at the open ocean were magic moments.

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ORION at the London Docks

Another stunning photograph from a slide shared by Michael Sutcliffe, former Purser on the ORION and other Orient and P&O ships in the late 1950s to the early 1970s.
Why there are no longer imaginative and beautiful passenger ship liveries? Corn colour was just perfect with buff funnels and masts... The closer hull colours were used by Epirotiki ships but even those turned into dark blue in later years...
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ORION, Lyttelton, New Zealand, 1962

Two Michael Sutcliffe photos of the ORION alongside Lyttelton, New Zealand, in 1962 at the very end of ORION's long career.
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ORONTES ON THE SUEZ CANAL

Another beautiful image by Michael Sutcliffe taken on board the Orient Line passenger liner ORONTES on the Suez Canal.
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ORONTES on the Indian Ocean

The British passenger liner ORONTES steaming on the Indian Ocean in South West Monsoon condition, towards the end of her long career.
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ORONTES in dry dock 1959

Orient Line passenger liner ORONTES photographed by Michael Sutcliffe at the Tilbury dry dock in May 1959.
Built in 1929 by Vickers-Armstrongs in Barrow in Furness, she survived WW2 and operated until early 1962. Sold to Spanish breakers and broken up in Valencia where she arrived on5th March 1962.

Text by L. M. Correia with Michael Sutcliffe copyright images . For other posts and images, check our archive at the right column of the main page. Click on the photos to see them enlarged. Thanks for your visit and comments. Luís Miguel Correia

THE ORIANA of 1960

At the request of Miguel M, here there are several of my early photgraphs of the 1960-ORIANA in Lisbon. All were taken in 1975, the b&w on 11 July and the colour photos on 19 August... Both photos were taken at the Rocha passenger ship terminal.

Copyright photos by L. M. Correia