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Cruise ship
Operated by Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Photo: Ellen Morgan · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.
In brief
SS Arcadia was a passenger liner built for P&O in 1953 to service the UK to Australia route. Towards the end of her life she operated as a cruise ship, based in Sydney, until scrapped in 1979.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
United Kingdom is the country of registry for 2,394 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (1,835 ships), and the median vessel measures 2,515 GT. Browse every ship flagged United Kingdom.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 37 cruise ships flying the United Kingdom flag.
SS Arcadia was built in 1954, making it 72 years old. It is one of 182 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,174 GT. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 27 vessels to John Brown & Company, with a median tonnage of 21,370 GT, delivered between 1936 and 2013. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 219.9 m overall, SS Arcadia is 21.8 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 27.6 m and a draft of 9.4 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5022065 this registry holds 18 other vessels, whose median build year is 1957 and which range from 1922 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1954.
Its IMO number, 5022065, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 0×6 + 2×5 + 2×4 + 0×3 + 6×2 = 65 — and the last digit of that total, 5, must equal the seventh digit, 5. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by IMO number
| Ship | IMO | Built |
|---|---|---|
| Arca | 5022041 | 1959 |
| Arborea | 5022039 | 1957 |
| Diamando | 5022144 | 1922 |
| Demetrios C. | 5021920 | 1952 |
Same yard, same years
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from SS Arcadia (1953) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Ellen Morgan, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.