SS Orissa
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| History | |
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| Name | SS Orissa |
| Owner | Pacific Steam Navigation Co. |
| Builder | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
| Yard number | 286 |
| Launched | 15 December 1894 |
| Completed | 30 March 1895 |
| In service | 11 Apr 1895 |
| Out of service | 25 Jun 1918 |
| Fate | Torpedoed and sunk |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | passenger / cargo |
| Tonnage | 5,358 tons |
| Length | 420 ft (128.02m) |
| Beam | 48.5 ft (14.78m) |
| Depth | 33.2 ft (10.1m) |
| Propulsion | twin screw |
| Speed | 15 knots (27.78 km/h) |
| Capacity | 70 x 1st; 104 x 2nd; 456 x 3rd class |
Remarks
Between 1899 - 1904 she became Boer War Transport No. 18. She took Lord Kitchener, Sir John French and Sir Ian Hamilton from Cape Town to London at the end of the war. During August 1906, she was berthed at Valparaiso during an earthquake and was used as a refugee accommodation ship.
On 25 Jun 1918 she was torpedoed and sunk by German U-Boat 'SM UB-73 while on passage from Liverpool to Philadelphia while 35 kilometers southwest of Skerryvore, with the loss of six lives.