Tractacus' photos with the keyword: Dry Dock

Cumbria connection

03 Aug 2013 5 1 490
The SS 'Orcades'. Built 1947 by Vickers Armstrong in Barrow-in-Furness for the Orient Steam Navigation Co., initially for the UK - Australia/New Zealand route. Orient Line became P&O in 1966. Here she is seen in No 6 dry dock at Southampton on Sat16Jun71. She didn't have long to live; laid up at Southampton in October 1972 she sailed on her last voyage in January 1973 to a ship breaker in Taiwan. Scanned