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CONDITION -- Excellent
HISTORY -- RMS Queen Mary is a retired ocean liner that sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line (then Cunard White Star when the vessel entered service). Built by John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland, she was designed to be the first of Cunard's planned two-ship weekly express service from Southampton to Cherbourg to New York, in answer to the mainland European superliners of the late 1920's and early 1930's.
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CONDITION -- Good
HISTORY -- The Arcadia was built by John Brown of Clydebank in 1954 for the P&O Line. Her sister ship was the Belfast-built Iberia of the same year. They were easily distinguishable due to different funnel tops. The Arcadia received full air-conditioning on a refit in Belfast in 1959. The Arcadia operated on the UK-Australia passenger service, with increasing numbers of cruises. In 1970 she became a full time one-class cruise ship. In 1976, The Arcadia was permanently based out of Sydney. She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1979.
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DESCRIPTION -- Early B/W postcard from the Bibby Line vessel the Dorsetshire which is used and dated as postmark and in a good condition.
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CONDITION -- Good
HISTORY -- HM Troopship Dorsetshire was a Bibby Line ship built in 1920 by Harland & Wolff at Belfast with a tonnage of 7450grt, a length of 450ft 4in, a beam of 57ft 4in and a service speed of 12 knots. One of a pair she was designed with higher than normal 'tween deck clearance so that she could be converted into a troopship if required. When launched on 22nd April 1920 she was the largest motorship at the time and was completed as a tin ore carrying cargo ship.
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DESCRIPTION -- Original B/W postcard of the Orient Line vessel The Orsova which is in a very good condition.
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CONDITION -- Very Good
HISTORY -- The SS Orsova, a 1503 passenger ocean liner, was built by Vickers Armstrong Shipbuilders Ltd. of Barrow-in-Furness, England, in 1954 for the Orient Steam Navigation Company for UK to Australia services via the Suez Canal, the voyage taking four weeks. After 1955, the return trip was eastward via Auckland, Suva, Honolulu, Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Panama, Trinidad and Cherbourg.
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DESCRIPTION -- Early colour postcard from the Cunard Line vessel the RMS Campania which is unused and in a very good condition and is a very rare find.
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CONDITION -- Very Good
HISTORY -- The RMS Campania was a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Steamship Line Shipping Company, built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Govan, Scotland, and launched on Thursday, 8 September 1892.
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DESCRIPTION -- B/W postcard of the vessel the TSS Duchess of Montrose which is in a very good condition and an extremely rare find.
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CONDITION -- Very Good
HISTORY -- The TSS Duchess of Montrose.
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DESCRIPTION -- B/W postcard of the Indian Royal Naval vessel the HMIS Indus and it is in a very good condition and is unused.
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CONDITION -- Very Good
HISTORY -- HMIS Indus was a Grimsby-class sloop of the Royal Indian Navy launched in 1934 and sunk during the Second World War in 1942. She was a slightly enlarged version of other vessels in the Grimsby class. She was named after the Indus River. Indus served mainly as an escort vessel, and she was therefore lightly armed. Her pennant number was changed to U67 in 1940.
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