A day after the Strathaird cruised out of Australia for the first time Orient Line’s Oronsay, which held 1551 passengers, sailed for New Caledonia on another cruise.
The Sydney Morning Herald noted that ship’s departure wasn’t without mishaps.
One woman got on the wrong ship and had to be taken off by speed boat, and another man got his times wrong and missed it altogether.
Fortunately, he was able to get on at Brisbane.
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More P&O ships cruised from Sydney prior to WWII, but the industry was halted as they were commandeered to carry troops.
After the war cruising resumed – but it remained on a smaller scale.
“Ships such as Oriana and Himalaya did some post war cruise seasons from Sydney among their line voyages from England,” Jones said.
Orient later merged into P&O.
