P&O’S Pacific Jewel hosted this group of passengers who celebrated a “golden anniversary of friendship” after meeting 50 years ago sailing to England on the liner SS Orcades. One of the group, Canberra’s Robbie Horn, had written to Carnival Australia ceo Ann Sherry to let her know that the ‘Orcadeans’...
P&O’S Pacific Jewel
hosted this group
of passengers who
celebrated a “golden
anniversary of friendship”
after meeting 50 years
ago sailing to England on
the liner SS Orcades.
One of the group, Canberra’s
Robbie Horn, had written to
Carnival Australia ceo Ann
Sherry to let her know that the
‘Orcadeans’ would be sailing
together again on Jewel’s 09 Aug
departure from Brisbane to the
South Pacific.
That was 50 years to the day
that the SS Orcades sailed out
of Sydney bound for Tilbury,
England with the 17 original
Orcadeans on board.
After becoming firm friends
during the Orcades journey they
have kept in regular contact over
the last half century.
Participants joined the Jewel
voyage travelling from as far
afield as Edinburgh, Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra,
Newcastle and Blackheath.
They’re pictured above on the
Pacific Jewel bridge with Captain
Roger Bilton and Staff Captain
Nick Carter.
And inset is the Orcadeans at
Pompeii Railway Station in Italy
during their first journey in 1965.
