Category:Orontes (ship, 1902)
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Source: Scottish Built Ships, Miramar Ship Index
Ship
[edit]- Type:
- Design by:
- Order date:
- Built by: the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, Glasgow
- Yard No:
- Keel laid:
- Launch date:
- Date of completion:
- Length overall: 156,54 m
- LPP: m
- Beam: 17,73 m
- Draught: m
- GRT: 9,028
- DWT:
- NET:
- Main engine:
- Speed: 18 kn
History
[edit]- 1902 Named: Orontes for the Orient Steam Navigation Co. Flag: United Kingdom
- 24.10.1902 Maiden voyage, left London for Suez, Melbourne and Sydney.
- 10.1916 Became a troopship
- 25.10.1919 Resumed Australia service with calls at Gibraltar, Toulon, Port Said, Colombo, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and an extension to Brisbane.
- 1921 Laid up in the Thames
- 1922 Sold for conversion into an exhibition ship and renamed British Trade.
- 1923 Repossessed by Orient Line and reverted to Orontes.
- 1926 Scrapped.
Media in category "Orontes (ship, 1902)"
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Categories:
- Ocean liners by name
- Orient Steam Navigation Company
- Passenger ships of the United Kingdom
- Ships built at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
- Ships built in 1902
- Steamships of the United Kingdom
- World War I troop ships of the United Kingdom
- Ships registered in Glasgow
- Ships scrapped in 1925
- Ships scrapped in Inverkeithing
- Ships named Orontes