Orontes (1929)

Name:
Orontes

Owner:
Orient Line (P&O)

Builder:
Vickers Armstrong LTD.
Barrow-in-Furness, England
Ordered:
N/A
Keel Laid:
N/A
Year Built:
1929
Launched:
N/A
Sister Ships:
Orama, Orford, Oronsay, Otranto
Maiden Voyage:
June 1929 Mediterranean Cruise
Fate:
Scrapped at Valencia, Spain in 1962.


Dimensions and machinery

Length:
664'
Engines:
2 steam turbines
Funnels:
2
Beam:
75' 2"
Boilers:
N/A
Masts:
2
Draft:
29' 8"
SHP:
20,000
Hull:
Steel
Tons:
20,097 GRT
Speed:
20 knots
Decks:
N/A
Screws:
2
Crew:
N/A


Passenger Capacity
1st
2nd
3rd
Steerage
Total
As Built:
500
1,112
1,612


Captains
N/A


History
1929-1940:
England - Australia Route.
1940-1947:
Used as a troopship.
1947-1948:
Refit as single class ship at Thorneycroft.
1948-1962:
England - Australia route.

Builder's Data
Page revised Mar. 12, 2008