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ORONTES 1902

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:41 pm

She is not the ORONTES depict on Cocos Islands 1976 50c sg 30, she was built in 1929.

Built as a cargo-passenger vessel under yard No 418 by Fairfields Shipbuilding & Eng. Co. Ltd., Glasgow for the Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., London.
10 May 1902 launched under the name ORONTES, named after the longest river in Syria and known by the Arabs as the Nahr-el-Asy.
Tonnage 9.023 gross, 4.622 net, dim. 156.5 x 17.7 x 10.0m.
Two quadruple expansion steam engines, manufactured by the shipbuilder, 10.000 ihp., twin screws, speed 18 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 152 first, 147 second, 368 third class.
October 1902 delivered, building cost £327.790. Port of registry, Glasgow.

24 October 1902 sailed for her maiden voyage from London via the Suez Canal to Australia.
From November 1915 till August 1916 chartered as a freight and troop transport.
October 1916 requisitioned by the British Government, became a full time troop transport under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
August 1917 redelivered to the Orient Line.
Again in the liner service between the U.K. to Australia.
19 February 1921 made her last voyage to Australia, and after her return in the U.K., laid up at Southend.
16 February 1922 Sold to the British World Trade Expeditions Ltd., London but the deal fell first through, at least on 25 January 1923 she was sold to that company.
27 January 1923 was she registered in London and renamed BRITISH TRADE, and converted in Hull.
But before she was converted the company got bankrupt, and the company got in receivership.
1924 Again laid up at Southend.
1925 Sold by liquidators to the shipbreaker T.W.Ward Ltd., Sheffield.
02 November 1925 Demolition commenced at Inverkeithing.

Cocos (Keeling) Islands 1984 $1 sgMS114, scott?

Source: Orient Line by Peter Newall. Origins, Orient and Oriana by Charles F. Morris.
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