ORSOVA 1909
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:26 pm
The Australian $1.45 stamp design of this poster, is by Walter Jardine and illustrated the ORMONDE or ORSOVA built in 1917 and 1909. Both were converted in one class vessel in 1933.
Built under yard No 383 by John Brown & Co., Glasgow for the Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd, Glasgow.
1908 Launched under the name ORSOVA, named after a small town in Hungary on the River Danube.
Tonnage 12.036 gross, 6.831 net, dim. 163.4 x 19.3 x 10.4m. (draught).
Two quadruple expansion engines 14.000 hp., service speed 16 knots, designed speed 18 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 288 first, 126 second and 660 third class passengers.
May 1909 delivered to owners.
25 June 1909 sailed from London for her maiden voyage to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane via the Suez Canal.
1915 Requisitioned by the British Government as a troopship, sailed from London on 07 May 1915 for Malta, Alexandria and Mudros with troops, before continuing her voyage to Australia.
July 1915 taken up by the Australian Government for trooping, made a voyage from Australia with around 1600 troops, sailing from Sydney on 14 July as Troopship No A 67 and via Melbourne to Egypt where the troops embarked, then the ORSOVA continued to Britain to unload her cargo.
On a voyage via the East African coast via Cape Town for London, she was torpedoed by a German submarine on 14 March 1917. Hit in the engine room, which killed six persons in a position near Eddystone in the English Channel, she was beached the same day on Cawsand Bay.
Then towed to Portsmouth for temporary repairs, then to Devonport where she was repaired.
January 1919 sailed out again after her repair, and was used to repatriate Australian troops.
She was handed back to the company and resumed her voyages between Great Britain and Australia in November 1919, sailing on the 12th from London.
1933 Converted in a one tourist class vessel of 660 passengers. Used for cruise voyages and regular liner service.
After making 70th round voyages to Australia, she became over complete after a new vessel the ORION took over her service.
20 June 1936 sailed for the last time for Australia.
October 1936 she sailed from Tilbury, near London for the breakers yard in Bo’ness, Firth of Forth, arriving 21 October by the P & W MacLellan Ltd. breakers yard, and she was beached the 27th after which work commenced to break her up.
Australia 2004 $1.45 sg?, scott? (see scan of the stamp under ORMONDE)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 1984 $1 sgMS114, scott?
Sources: Across the Sea to war by Peter Plowman. Register of Merchant Ships Completed in 1909.
http://www.stardate.be.ca/ivan/sub_pages/orsova.htm North Star to Southern Cross by John M.Maber.
Built under yard No 383 by John Brown & Co., Glasgow for the Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd, Glasgow.
1908 Launched under the name ORSOVA, named after a small town in Hungary on the River Danube.
Tonnage 12.036 gross, 6.831 net, dim. 163.4 x 19.3 x 10.4m. (draught).
Two quadruple expansion engines 14.000 hp., service speed 16 knots, designed speed 18 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 288 first, 126 second and 660 third class passengers.
May 1909 delivered to owners.
25 June 1909 sailed from London for her maiden voyage to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane via the Suez Canal.
1915 Requisitioned by the British Government as a troopship, sailed from London on 07 May 1915 for Malta, Alexandria and Mudros with troops, before continuing her voyage to Australia.
July 1915 taken up by the Australian Government for trooping, made a voyage from Australia with around 1600 troops, sailing from Sydney on 14 July as Troopship No A 67 and via Melbourne to Egypt where the troops embarked, then the ORSOVA continued to Britain to unload her cargo.
On a voyage via the East African coast via Cape Town for London, she was torpedoed by a German submarine on 14 March 1917. Hit in the engine room, which killed six persons in a position near Eddystone in the English Channel, she was beached the same day on Cawsand Bay.
Then towed to Portsmouth for temporary repairs, then to Devonport where she was repaired.
January 1919 sailed out again after her repair, and was used to repatriate Australian troops.
She was handed back to the company and resumed her voyages between Great Britain and Australia in November 1919, sailing on the 12th from London.
1933 Converted in a one tourist class vessel of 660 passengers. Used for cruise voyages and regular liner service.
After making 70th round voyages to Australia, she became over complete after a new vessel the ORION took over her service.
20 June 1936 sailed for the last time for Australia.
October 1936 she sailed from Tilbury, near London for the breakers yard in Bo’ness, Firth of Forth, arriving 21 October by the P & W MacLellan Ltd. breakers yard, and she was beached the 27th after which work commenced to break her up.
Australia 2004 $1.45 sg?, scott? (see scan of the stamp under ORMONDE)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 1984 $1 sgMS114, scott?
Sources: Across the Sea to war by Peter Plowman. Register of Merchant Ships Completed in 1909.
http://www.stardate.be.ca/ivan/sub_pages/orsova.htm North Star to Southern Cross by John M.Maber.