SS Orontes
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SS Orontes was an Orient Steam Navigation Company ocean liner. Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, England built her in 1929. She was the second Orient Line ships to be named after the Orontes River. The first was Template:RMS, which had been scrapped in 1925.
Her sister ships were Orama, Orford, Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found., and Template:RMS. Orontes was the last of the Orama class to be built. Great effort was taken to make her public rooms the best of the class.[1]
Service
OrontesTemplate:' maiden voyage was a Mediterranean cruise. From 1929 to 1940, she worked Orient Line's route between England and Australia. She carried the England cricket team on the way to the Bodyline tour in 1932.[2]
Orontes was a troopship from 1940 until 1947. In 1947 she repatriated German prisoners of war from Melbourne to Cuxhaven, Germany.[1]
In 1947 she was refitted, and in 1948 she returned to Orient Line's route between England and Australia. In 1953 John I. Thornycroft & Company refitted her as a one-class ship. In August 1958, she was involved in a collision with Empire Baltic, a landing ship used as a ferry on the River Thames. She was scrapped at Valencia, Spain, in 1962.[1][3][4]
References
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- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Builder's model of SS Orontes". Sydney, NSW: Australian National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McKinstry, Leo (14 September 2007), "When cynicism eclipsed chivalry in sport", Daily Telegraph, London[dead link]
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Orontes (1146027)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.ORONTES (1929) (PDF), P&O Heritage, archived from the original on 9 January 2007, retrieved 5 March 2009
Further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Geddes, FL (24 June 1948), "The Reconditioned "Orontes"", Shipbuilding and Shipping Record: 774 – article about the post-war refit
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McCart, Neil (1987). Passenger Ships of the Orient Line. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens. ISBN 978-0-85059-891-9.
