Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1954Vol. XXIV, No. 7

Pacific Experiment

p. 17 · Read in the full issue

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Orient Co.’s Successful Pacific Experiment

AN indication of the success of the first of three test services across the Pacific by the Orient liners (See PIM for January) was the announcement that there would be an additional two services at the end of the year—making five for 1954.

Oronsay (28,000 tons) will leave Sydney on November 19, and her sister ship Orcades will leave on December 17. They will follow the same itinerary, calling at Auckland, Suva, Honolulu, Vancouver and San Francisco.

Unless there is some unforeseen slump in the demand for trans pacific passages, it is expected that the Orient Co. will announce still more services on the same run, in 1955.

Oronsay was due to return to Sydney from the first trip on Feb ruary 8. She will leave on the second trip on May 21, and Orion will leave on the third on Sep tember 17.

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