ORCOMA (1) was built in 1908 by W Beardmore & Co. at Glasgow with a tonnage of 11546grt, a length of 511ft 7in, a beam of 62ft 2in and a service speed of 14.5 knots. Launched on 2nd April 1908 she commenced her maiden voyage from Liverpool to the west coast of South America via the Straits of Magellan on 27th August and was the largest and fastest vessel on the South American Pacific route. In 1909 she took the first conducted tour to South America for Thomas Cook at a cost of £300 per person. She broke the Liverpool to Callao record, which included ports of call, in 1914 when she completed the voyage in 32 days 22 hour 40 mins. In the October she returned to the UK in a faster time and missed the holocaust of the German victory at Coronel by a few hours. She was converted into an Armed Merchant Cruiser in March 1915 and served on the Northern patrol with the 10th Cruiser Squadron. On 7th November 1919 she was returned to PSNC and her first commercial voyage was back to the UK via the Panama Canal and New York. She was modernised and converted to burn oil in 1923. In 1933 she was replaced by the Reina del Pacifico and realised £14580 when she was sold for scrap and broken up by Hughes Bolckow at Blyth in June of the same year.