Orcades

Orcades is:

• in ancient geography the name of the Orkneys
• the name of three ships of the British shipping company Orient Steam Navigation Company ( Orient Line ):
  • Formerly Prince Ludwig of North German Lloyd ; went in 1921 as a war repairs to the Orient Line and was in Orcades renamed
  • Orcades (ship, 1937) , commissioned in 1937, sunk by a German submarine in 1942
  • Orcades (ship, 1948) , commissioned in 1948, out of service in 1972, scrapped in 1973

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.