Scythia

Although one of the smaller Cunarders, the 19,700- ton Scythia had a successful career and a particularly long life span of nearly four decades.

	Asturias
	One of the principal liners on Royal Mail Lines' service from Southampton to South America between the two World Wars was the 22,048 ton Asturias.

	Dunera
	The 12,615-ton Dunera was associated with Southampton in two distinctly different careers - the first as a troopship and second as Britain's pioneer educational cruise liner.

	Washington and Manhattan
	PLENTY of competition for British and foreign liners on the North Atlantic in the 1930s was provided by two US Lines' ships, Washington and Manhattan, both more than 24,000 tons each.

	Stratheden
	One of P&O's best known ships for many years was the 24,000-ton Stratheden, which had the distinction of reopening the company's Australian service after the Second World War.

Orsov

ORIENT Line's 28,000-ton Orsova is remembered as the first passenger liner in the world with an all-welded hull and the first without a mast.

	Pretoria Castle
	Union-Castle Line's Pretoria Castle, which entered the South Africa passenger-cargo service in 1948, was sold in 1965 to the Safmarine Corporation with the result that she was named SA Oranje for the second part of her career.

	Arandora Star
	A particularly graceful liner operating from Southampton in the 1930s on full-time cruising was Blue Star Line's 15,000-ton Arandora Star.

	Pendennis Castle
	The famous fun-ship of the Union-Castle fleet, the 28,582 ton Pendennis Castle, was on the South African service for only 17 years before being withdrawn in 1976.