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 Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., which had been scrapped in 1925.
Her sister ships were Orama, Orford, Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".. 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]
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Further reading
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". – article about the post-war refit
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