Royal Oceania Company

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The Royal Oceania Company (Portuguese: Companhia Real da Oceânia) is a shipping company that operates from Europe and New Zealand.

The company, founded in 1869, is one of the most important shipping companies inside of the Commonwealth. It is one of the companies that transports thousands of passengers from Europe to Oceania, as well as making cruises in the Timor and the South Pacific Region.

In the beginning, the company used to transport passengers from Lisbon to Sydney in a direct route from Europe to Oceania. From 1870, the company expanded its operations to the rest of the Imperial Territories in Asia, creating links to Wellington and Nagasaki. It was only from 1880 that it expanded its navy by making sailings to Sydney and Guam which helped the Luso-British Union economically in Asia and the company itself, which began building more and larger ships. It wasn't until the start of the 10 Years' War, when the company, still making commercial trips, won the market, buying out various companies like Pacific Line and the Inman Line. From 1930 onwards, it started recovering old ships so that they could continue to serve, even to this day.

It was until 1934, when the Economic Crisis and consequently the Great Depression hit, that the company had to sell part of its fleet, and started to focus on New Zealand and Chinese voyages, as well as creating connections between the Colony of Aurélia and Papua New Guinea. The company managed to overcome the crisis and continued to sail the oceans. From the 1970s, the company expanded into the rest of the Asian market. The Principalities of India, Macao, Hong Kong and the Three Cities and the Kingdoms of Timor were without maritime connections to and from the Africa and almost everything was done by land, but as other states began to charge for the entry of goods and people (in certain countries). So the company expanded its services to Africa, creating connections from Goa to Lourenço Marques, with a new fleet there.

By the 1990s, the company was in its golden age. Sailing to almost every corner of Asia, it ended up being recognised as a great company to sail for, as one of the priorities was the maintenance of its ships, which helped expand their ages, even some that are over 60 years old, which is the case of the S.S. Canberra and the S.S. Oriana. In 2010, the company was affected by the Crisis of that year, but managed, with the help of the state this time, to overcome and in 2017 managed to recover what it had lost in the last 7 years. Now, the last route it opened was to the Atlantic via the Panama Canal. The French shipping companies have been trying for years to steal the market that was won by the Commonwealth for almost a century without competition, but it ends up being difficult, since many tourists prefer to travel on a Commonwealthee ship than a French one. Furthermore, the ROC has one of the stylish ships in the world, the S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam.

Currently, the company is run by Alberto Falcone, president of ROC since 2015. He had a certain influence, as he was one of the people against the sale of certain ships to be scrapped. But now he has started to recover others as also by giving a new colour to the ships' funnels, being now all in a yellow colour, occasionally.

Now below is a list of the ships that are being operated by ROC as well as the routes they are taking. It's not a big list, but it might be expanded in the future.

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Photograph	Name	Built	Built Place	Routes:
	S.S. Canberra	Original built: May 1st, 1961 Rebuilt: May 2nd, 2011	Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Kingdom of Ireland	Summer: Wellington - Lisbon via Goa Winter: Sydney - Lourenço Marques via Díli
	S.S. Carinthia	Original built: June 11th, 1925 Rebuilt: October 23rd, 2001	Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdoms of Portugal and Great Britain	Summer: Sydney - Mia via Los Santos Winter: Mia - Beira via Colombo
	S.S. Caronia	Original built: April 1st, 1947 Rebuilt: April 25th, 2009	John Brown and Company, Clydebank, United Kingdoms of Portugal and Great Britain	Summer: Hormuz - Eucia via Adelaide Winter: Melbourne - Nagasaki via Macau
	S.S. Laconia	Original built: April 9th, 1922 Rebuilt: November 11th, 1999	Swan Hunter, Northumberland, United Kingdoms of Portugal and Great Britain	Summer: Moçambique - Hong Kong via Goa Winter: Nagasaki - Broome via Alotau
	S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam	Original built: July 11th, 1937 Rebuilt: August 11th, 2018	N.V. Rotterdam Drydock Company, Rotterdam, The Kingdom of the Netherlands	Summer: Mia - Beira via Sydney Winter: Sydney - Goa via Singapure
	S.S. Noordam	Original built: October 1st, 1938 Rebuilt: December 9th, 2001	P. Smit Jr., Rotterdam, The Kingdom of the Netherlands	Summer: Malaca - Macau Winter: Singapure - Díli
	S.S. Oriana	Original built: January 1st, 1959 Rebuilt: February 14th, 2009	Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdoms of Portugal and Great Britain	Summer: Goa - Lisbon via Alexandria Winter: London - Sydney via Lisbon
	S.S. Rotterdam	Original built: July 7th, 1957 Rebuilt: August 24th, 2018	Rotterdam Drydock Company mij., Rotterdam, The Kingdom of the Netherlands	Summer: Lisbon - Wellington via Goa Winter: London - Sydney via Cidade do Cabo
	S.S. Samaria	Original built: June 5th, 1922 Rebuilt: August 1st, 2019	Cammell, Laird & Co, Birkenhead, United Kingdoms of Portugal and Great Britain	Summer: Singapure - Sydney via Díli Winter: Malaca - Paleto Bay via Port Moresby

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References:
Pictures taken in: Virtual Sailor 7
Models made by: Great Virtual Fleet
Repaint made by: The Commonwealth of Nations of NorthPortugal

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