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SS Orontes
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History
Name SS Orontes
Owner Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., Glasgow
Builder Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Govan
Yard number 418
Launched 10 May 1902
Completed September 1902
In service 1902
Out of service 1925
Fate broken up for scrap
General characteristics
Type Passenger / cargo
Tonnage 9,028 tons
Length 513.7 ft (156.58)
Beam 58.2 ft (17.7m)
Depth 34.4 ft (10.49m)
Propulsion twin screw
Speed 18 knots (33.34 km/h)
Capacity 643 passengers



Remarks

Built for the Orient Line, and able to carry 200 first class passengers, 200 second class, and 600 third class. Used on the London - Sydney run from 1902 to 1916, and then as a troopship during WW1 on occasional charters. Taken over by the British Admiralty in 1916, but released in 1917 as her refrigerated holds were more useful transporting dairy produce and meat from Australia to England.


After the war she resumed her service to Australia from the UK until 1921 when she was laid up in the Thames for a time. Sold in 1922 to the British World Trade Expeditions Ltd, Glasgow, but re-possessed by her owners later that year. Briefly resumed service, only to be scrapped in 1926.

Soldiers carried

England to Fremantle 10 March - 4 May 1918

Sydney to Liverpool 5 June - 11 August 1918