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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.
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]
SS Oronsay: 1924 Torpedoed and sunk off Liberia on October 9, 1942 Oronsay in 1940. SS Oronsay: 1950 Scrapped in 1975 S.S. Oronsay in 1950. SS Orontes: 1929 Scrapped in 1962 – Valencia, Spain SS Orontes in Tilbury Docks, circa 1957. SS Oropesa (1919) 1919 Torpedoed and sunk by U-96, January 16, 1941. SS Oropesa: SS Orsova: 1908 Scrapped in 1936
The Oriana was the last ship ordered for the Orient Line, and the last to fly the Orient Line flag. P&O and Orient Line were formally merged in 1960 to form P&O-Orient Lines. In 1964 the Orient Line colour scheme of corn-cream coloured hulls was discontinued in favour of P&O's white livery, and Orcades and Oronsay transferred to the P&O fleet.
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
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
SS Orsova, was a British ocean liner, built by Vickers Armstrong in Barrow-in-Furness, England, for the Orient Steam Navigation Company (Orient Line) for their Great Britain-to-Australia services via the Suez Canal. She was the final development of the 28,000 ton class which began with the SS Orcades of 1948 and continued with the SS Oronsay of
List of ship launches in 1950; ... SS Oronsay (1950) Øysang ferry; P. ARA Punta Médanos (B-18) R. United States lightship Relief (WLV-605) RFA Resurgent; RFA Retainer;