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Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
Royal Mail - Page 2
This page is one of a series devoted to postcards and photographs of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP).
An alphabetical list of ships
shown on this page is shown below. Below this is a
Fleet List
in chronological order. There is a table of individual ship histories on the
RMSP Header Page
.
Ships on This Page:-
Almanzora
(1915-1948 - 16,034gt)
Amazon (2)
(1906-1918 - 10,037gt)
Andes (1)
(1913-1929 - 15,620gt) - later
Atlantis
Aragon (1)
(1907-1930 - 11,073gt)
Araguaya
(1906-1930 - 11,537gt)
Arcadian (1)
(1910-1917) - ex-
Ortona
Arcadian (2)
(1923-1933 - 12,105gt) - ex-
Asturias (1)
Arlanza (1)
(1911-1938 - 15,044gt)
Asturias (1)
(1907-1923 - 12,105gt) - later
Arcadian
Atlantis
(1929-1952) - ex-
Andes (1)
Avon
(1907-1930 - 11,073gt)
Caribbean
(1913-1915 - 5625gt)
Carnarvonshire
(1913-1933 - 9406gt)
Deseado (1)
(1911-1934 - 11,475gt)
Demarara (2)
(1912-1933 - 11,484gt)
Darro (1)
(1912-1933 - 11,484gt)
Drina (1)
(1912-1917 - 11,483gt)
Ebro
(1915-1922)
Essequibo
(1914-1922)
Ohio
(1919-1927 - 18,490gt)
Orbita
(1923-1927) - ex-
Pacific SN Co
Orca
(1923-1927) - ex-
Pacific SN Co
Orduña (1)
(1923-1927) - ex-
Pacific SN Co
Oropesa (2)
(1920-1941)
Orotava
(1906-1919) - ex-
Pacific SN Co
Oroya (2)
(1906-1909) - ex-
Pacific SN Co
Ortona
(1906-1910) - ex-
Pacific SN Co
- later
Arcadian (1)
Oruba (1)
(1906-1915) - ex-
Pacific SN Co
RMSP Pages:-
RMSP Header Page
RMSP - Page 1
- up to 1899
RMSP - Page 2
- 1900-1923
- this page!
RMSP - Page 3
- 1923-1939
RMSP - Page 4
- 1940-1970
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Royal Mail Fleet List - Page 2
Aragon (1)
(1905-1917 - 9588gt)
Aragon (1)
was torpedoed and sunk off Alexandria in 1917.
RMSP postcard of
Aragon (1).
F.G.O.Stuart postcard of
Aragon (1).
Tuck's postcard of
Aragon (1)
at Southampton's Empress Dock.
Photographic postcard 219 of
Aragon (1).
Amazon (2)
(1906-1918 - 10,037gt)
Amazon (2)
was torpedoed and sunk off Ireland in 1918.
Photographic postcard of
Amazon (2).
Araguaya
(1906-1930 - 11,537gt)
RMSP postcard of
Araguaya.
RMSP art postcard of
Araguaya.
RMSP art postcard of
Araguaya.
F.G.O.Stuart postcard of
Araguaya.
Postcard of
Araguaya.
C.R.Hoffman postcard of
Araguaya.
Photographic postcard of
Araguaya.
Postcard of
Araguaya.
Postcard of
Araguaya.
Postcard of
Araguaya
as a hospital ship.
Oroya (2)
(1906-1909)
Sisterships
Orizaba
and
Oroya (2)
were designed by the
Pacific SN Co
for the joint Australian service with
Orient Lines
. As built, they were 6050 gross tons and 466 feet long, and passenger totals were:- 126-1st, 154-2nd and 412-3rd. Tonnage later increased to 6300 gt and funnels were lengthened in 1905. In 1895,
Oroya (2)
was stranded in the Bay of Naples. On 15th February 1905,
Orizaba
ran ashore on Garden Island, near Fremantle, and became a total loss. Surviving sister
Oroya (2)
passed to Royal Mail for Orient-Royal Mail service in 1906. They were built with four masts, but Royal Mail removed the the second and third from
Oroya (2)
. She was scrapped in 1909.
Orient-Royal Mail postcard of
Oroya (2)
at Tilbury.
Kingsway postcard S2168 of
Oroya (2)
in Royal Mail service after 1906.
Orotava
(1906-1919)
Oruba (1)
(1906-1915)
Orotava
and
Oruba
were designed by the
Pacific SN Co
as smaller versions of
Orizaba
with funnels placed closer together. They were built for the Valparaiso trade and re-allocated to the Australian run in in mid-1890. They were 5850 gross tons, 430 feet long and passenger totals were:- 126-1st, 120-2nd and 400-3rd. In 1896,
Orotava
capsized in Tilbury, but was raised for further service. She was used for Boer War trooping between 1899-1903. They passed to Royal Mail in 1906, and their second and third masts were removed. From 1909 they served on the West Indies route.
Orotava
became an armed merchant cruiser in WW1, and was scrapped afterwards in 1919.
Oruba
was taken over by the Admiralty for conversion as a dummy replica of the battleship
Orion
, and was later scuttled to form a breakwater in the Aegean.
Postcard of
Oruba
in Royal Mail service with two masts.
Official Orient-Royal Mail postcard of
Oruba
with two masts.
Ortona
(1906-1910)
Arcadian (1)
(1910-1917)
Ortona
was built by
Pacific SN Co
for the Australian run. She was 7950 gross tons and 500 feet long, carrying 130-1st, 162-2nd and 300-3rd class passengers. She passed to Royal Mail in 1906, and was used briefly on their West Indies route. In 1910 she was rebuilt as the cruise ship
Arcadian
(8950 gross tons, 320 First Class passengers). She was sunk by a submarine in 1917 whilst on trooping duty.
Tuck's "Celebrated Liners" postcard of
Ortona
in
Pacific SN Co
service.
RMSP art postcard of
Arcadian (
ex-
Ortona)
Postcard of
Arcadian (
ex-
Ortona)
Avon
(1907-1930 - 11,073gt)
RMSP postcard of
Avon.
RMSP postcard of
Avon .
Asturias (1)
(1907-1923 - 12,105gt)
Arcadian
(1923-1933)
RMSP postcard of
Asturias (1).
RMSP postcard of
Asturias (1).
RMSP postcard of
Arcadian,
ex-
Asturias (1).
RMSP postcard of
Arcadian,
ex-
Asturias (1).
Photographic postcard of
Arcadian,
ex-
Asturias (1).
Arlanza (1)
(1911-1938 - 15,044gt)
RMSP postcard of
Arlanza (1)
- sepia version.
RMSP postcard of
Arlanza (1)
- blue version.
RMSP postcard of
Arlanza (1)
- a third variation on the image used in the cards above.
Photographic postcard of
Arlanza (1).