Pacific Steam Navigation Company (PSNCo)
 
Page 3: 1914-1939
 
 
This page is one of a series devoted to postcards and photographs of the ocean passenger services of Pacific Steam Navigation Company (PSNCo). Their many coastal vessels on South American Pacific Coast services are not covered. An alphabetical list of ships shown on this page is shown below. Below this is the Fleet List- Part 3 in chronological order.
 
In 1904, the South Atlantic route was Liverpool, La Pallice (La Rochelle), Corunna, Vigo, Lisbon, Recife, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Port Stanley (Falklands), Punta Arenas, Coronel, Talcahuano and Valparaiso. By 1906, brighter prospects in their original trading area allowed PSNCo to sell their Australian interests to Royal Mail Lines, along with the four PSNCo vessels used, and the Australian service became known as Orient-Royal Mail Line. The new partners did not get along, and Royal Mail Lines pulled out of the partnership with Orient Line in 1909. By 1910 it was apparent that traffic patterns to South America were changing with the opening of new railways, and construction of the Panama Canal (opened 1915). Collaboration was necessary with PSNCo's main competitor, Royal Mail, and the larger company acquired PSNCo in 1910 buff funnels replacing the previous black. The swapping of ships between the two fleets became frequent. New laws in Chile forced the end of the coastal service in the 1920s.
 
The collapse and break-up of the Royal Mail Lines empire in 1932 briefly restored the PSNCo independence, since Royal Mail reacquired the shares in 1938. In 1931, PSNCo had received the superb motorship Reina Del Pacifico, which reduced the round trip time to Valparaiso by 18 days to 60. By the depression of the 1930s, five round trips by Reina Del Pacifico, and a combined seven by Orbita and Orduña (1), were sufficient to carry all passengers. After World War 2, the steamers were dropped without replacement. In 1956, Reina Del Pacifico was joined by the new steamer Reina Del Mar, although they only ran concurrently for 2 years. In 1964, Reina Del Mar was converted to a cruise ship under Union-Castle management, and the era of Pacific Steam passenger services came to an end.
 
 
Ships on This Page:-
Ebro (1920-1935)
Essequibo (1920-1935)
Orbita (1920-1935)
Orca (1918-1927)
Orcana (1922-1924)
Orduña (1) (1914-1941)
Oropesa (2) (1920-1941)
Oroya (3) (1923-1939)
Oruba (2) (1921-1924)
Reina Del Pacifico (1931-1958)
 
PSNCo Pages:-
PSNCo - Header Page
PSNCo - Page 1 - Pre-1900
PSNCo - Page 2 - 1900-1913
PSNCo - Page 3 - 1914-1939
PSNCo - Page 4 - 1939-1964
 
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PSNCo Fleet List
Page 3: 1914-1939
 
 
 
 
 
Orduña (1) (1914-1941)
Orbita (1914-1935)
Orca (1918-1927)
 
Orduña, Orbita, and Orca were built for the PSNCo South American services. PSNCo ownership had been with Royal Mail Lines since 1910, and transfers between fleets followed. Orduña was transferred from PSNCo to Royal Mail for their Hamburg-New York service in 1921, reverting back to PSNCo in 1927. Orbita was chartered from PSNCo for Royal Mail's Hamburg-NY service in 1921, and fully transferred in 1923. In 1927 she reverted to PSNCo. Orca transferred to Royal Mail Lines from PSNCo in 1923. In 1927 she was sold to White Star Line, and renamed Calgaric.
 
 
Official PSNCo art postcard of Orduña.
 
PSNCo postcard of Orduña.
 
Card back of the PSNCo postcard of Orduña shown above.
 
PSNCo postcard of Orduña.
 
PSNCo postcard of Orduña.
 
Postcard of Orduña.
 
Official postcard of Orduña in Royal Mail Lines service to New York.
 
Official postcard of Orduña in Royal Mail Lines service to New York.
 
Postcard of Orduña.
 
 
Postcard of Orbita.
 
C.R.Hoffman postcard of Orbita in Royal Mail Lines service.
 
 
 
Official postcard of Orca in Royal Mail Lines service to New York.
 
C.R.Hoffman postcard of Orca in Royal Mail Lines service.
 
 
 
 
 
Oropesa (2) (1920-1941)
 
Oropesa (2) was chartered to parent company Royal Mail between 1921-22 for their New York service. She was torpedoed and sunk off Ireland in 1941.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Essequibo (1922-1935)
Ebro (1922-1935)
 
Essequibo was built for the PSNCo parent company Royal Mail in 1914. She was transferred to the PSNCo in 1922. In 1935 she was sold to the USSR as the Neva.
 
Ebro was built for Royal Mail in 1915, and was transferred to the PSNCo in 1922. She became the Princess Olga of Jugoslavenska Lloyd in 1935 and then served as Serpa Pinto of Companhia Colonial de Navegacao from 1940-1955.
 
 
PSNCo postcard of Ebro.
 
Photograph of Princeza Olga of Jugoslavenska Lloyd.
Scan: Ivo Batricevic
 
 
 
 
 
Oruba (2) (1922-1924)
Orcana (2) (1922-1924)
 
Oruba (2) was built as the Marathon in 1904 for the Aberdeen Line. She was purchased by Royal Mail in 1920 and renamed renamed Oruba (2). In 1922 she was trasnsferred to the PSNCo and scrapped two years later. Similarly, the Orcana had been the Aberdeen Line Miltiades of 1903, and was purchased by Royal Mail in 1920. She was transferred to PSNCo in 1922, but scrapped two years later.
 
Pictures not available yet.
 
 
 
 
 
Oroya (3) (1923-1939)
 
Oroya (3) served with the PSNCo from 1923 until scrapped in 1939.
 
 
Postcard of Oroya (3) at La Rochelle.
 
Postcard of Oroya (3) in the Panama Canal.
 
 
 
 
 
Reina Del Pacifico (1931-1958)
 
Reina Del Pacifico served with the PSNCo from 1931 until scrapped in 1958.
 
 
PSNCo postcard of Reina Del Pacifico.
 
Card back of the PSNCo postcard of Reina Del Pacifico shown above.
 
PSNCo postcard of Reina Del Pacifico.
 
Card back of the PSNCo postcard of Reina Del Pacifico shown above.
Note the later crown.
 
PSNCo postcard of Reina Del Pacifico.
 
PSNCo postcard of Reina Del Pacifico.
 
Salmon postcard 5063 of Reina Del Pacifico.
Painting: J.Nicholson.
 
Foto Flatau (Panama) postcard FF-109 of Reina Del Pacifico, in the Gaillard Cut, Panama Canal.
 
Postcard of Reina Del Pacifico.
 
Photograph of Reina Del Pacifico.
 
 
 
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