She finally started her passenger maiden voyage, on 3 January 1923, sailing from Southampton via Hamburg to New York. Thence until March 1923 she operated two "off-season" cruises the Caribbean before reverting to liner service. A few years later, RMSP used Orca for the company's first "Great African Cruise". White Star Line In 1926 RMSP took over White Star Line, and Orca was one of several RMSP ships transferred to the White Star fleet. She was refitted again, second class was renamed "tourist class", and her accommodation was increased to a total of 1,170 passengers: 290 first class, 550 tourist class and 330 third class. White Star ran services to Canada, so Orca was renamed Calgaric after the city of Calgary in Alberta. On 4 May 1927 she started her first voyage for White Star, sailing from Liverpool to the east coast of Canada. She continued to do a lot of cruising as well as her liner work. In 1929 White Star transferred her from its Liverpool – Canada service to its London – Canada service. The Great Depression that started in 1929 caused a Global slump in shipping. Calgaric was laid up from 1930 until 1933. 1933 voyages In June 1933 Calgaric returned to service for a single transatlantic crossing from Liverpool to Montreal. Thereafter she made a few cruises. The Scout Association chartered Calgaric to take scoutmasters and Guide mistresses on a Baltic cruise in August 1933. Passengers included the Baden-Powell family, about 100 Scoutmasters, 475 Guide mistresses, and 80 non-Scouts and Guides – presumably their spouses. There were 85 men and 570 women – some of the Wolf Cub Akelas were women. The cruise began from Southampton on Saturday 12 August and ended at Liverpool on 29 August. Her itinerary was Rotterdam, the Kiel Canal, Gdynia, Klaipėda, Riga, Tallinn, Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, the Pentland Firth and Oban. Fate In 1934 Calgaric was assigned the new four-letter wireless telegraph call sign GLTR to replace her former code letters. On 10 May Cunard Line took over the ailing White Star to form Cunard-White Star Line. By then Calgaric had been laid up again. She was sold for scrap, and on Christmas Day 1934 she arrived at Rosyth in Scotland for Metal Industries, Limited to break her up. References Bibliography 1917 ships Ocean liners Passenger ships of the United Kingdom Ships built in Belfast Ships built by Harland and Wolff