Arcadia P & O

1888-1915.



Built: 1888 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast.
Tonnage: 6,603 G.
Engine: Single screw, triple expansion, 7,000 IHP, 16.5 knots by Builder.
Passengers: 250 1st Class, 159 2nd Class.
Launched 17th December 1887, completed 16th May 1888.

Arcadia is a mountainous district south west of the Corinth Canal, Greece.

She cost £186,216 to build and underwent modernisation in 1904. Sold in January of 1915 for £13,000 to Abdool Husein Essajee & Co., India for scrapping, work commenced in the March. Below are photographs taken circa 1888/1901 of her crew and passengers.