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SS Oronsay was the second Orient Line ship built after World War II.A sister ship to Orcades, she was named after the island of Oronsay off the west coast of Scotland. [2]The liner was completed in 1951 at Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness, but was delivered several months behind schedule because of a serious fire that broke out in the fitting-out berth.
This is a list of ships named Oronsay: SS Oronsay (1887) (renamed Hainaut after 1900) 2,070 GRT steamship wrecked off Skyros in 1911 [1] SS Oronsay (1900) 3,761 GRT cargo ship, torpedoed off Malta in 1916 [2] SS Oronsay (1925) Orient Line liner and troopship torpedoed off Liberia in 1942
In all six crew members were lost; the remainder got the ship's boats away as Oronsay sank. [2] 321 of them were rescued by HMS Brilliant after 12 days. [15] 26 survivors, including the ship's surgeon James McIlroy (the Antarctic explorer), were picked up by the Vichy French aviso Dumont d'Urville, and were interned at Dakar. [16]
M.S. Aramis, circa 1932 Teiyō Maru as a repatriation ship, circa 1943: SS Argentina (1929) 1929 SS Pennsylvania (1929–1938) Scrapped in 1964 One of the 3 sister ships of Argentina, it's unknown which one it is as the name was omitted from the bow. SS Arundel Castle: 1894 SS Birma (1905–1913) SS Mitava (1913–1921) SS Josef Pilsudski (1921 ...
SS Omrah; RMS Ophir; RMS Orama (1911) SS Orcades (1921) SS Orcades (1936) SS Orcades (1947) SS Oriana (1959) Orient (clipper ship) RMS Orion; SS Oronsay (1924) SS Oronsay (1950) RMS Orontes; SS Orontes; SS Orsova (1908) SS Orsova (1953) SS Osterley; HMS Otranto; SS Otway
Three new ships of 28,000–29,000 tons entered service: Orcades (1947), Oronsay (1951) and Orsova (1953), matching in speed and size the three new postwar ships for P&O (Himalaya (1949), Arcadia (1954) and Iberia (1954)). All had higher speeds that allowed them to reduce the sailing time from England to Australia by eight days to 28 days and ...
This is a list of ships built by John Brown & Company at their shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland This list ... SS Oronsay (1925) SS ...
List of ship decommissionings in 1950; ... SS Oronsay (1950) Øysang ferry; P. ARA Punta Médanos (B-18) R. United States lightship Relief (WLV-605) RFA Resurgent;