GBR - YN 500 TSS Oronsay General Arrangement (1922)
Book details
- Title
- GBR - YN 500 TSS Oronsay General Arrangement (1922)
- Author
- Viscountess Novar
- Publication year listed
- 1922
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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GBR - YN 500 TSS Oronsay General Arrangement (1922)
Author: John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank Shipyard, Clydebank
Year: 1922
GBR - TSS Oronsay Ocean Liner Passenger Cargo Ship Orama Class (Orient Line) official nr: 1 47948 yard nr: 500 yard: John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank Shipyard, Clydebank laid down: launched: may 25 1924 completed: october 31 1924 16/8/1924: - Launched by Viscountess Novar, wife of a former Governor General of Australia 14/1/1925: - Sea Trials 19/1/1925: - Delivered as Oronsay to Orient Steam Navigation Company (Orient Line) 7/2/1925: - Maiden voyage Tilbury - Brisbane 1925: - Programme of summer cruises from the UK 26/9/1929: - Opened new entrance lock at Tilbury Docks 1935: - Third class converted to Tourist. Passenger capacity now 501 first class, 482 tourist class 1936: - Made first Orient Line call at Hobart, Tasmania with 250 passengers 6/4/1940: - Requisitioned as a troopship 3/5/1940: - First trooping voyage Clyde - Southampton - Cherbourg - Gibraltar - Malta 29/5/1940: - Sailed from Liverpool for evacuation of Norway 17/6/1940: - Heavily bombed while in St Nazaire evacuating troops and survivors from the Lancastria, escaping with damage to the wheelhouse and after part of the bridge 8/10/1940: - Attacked by aircraft off the coast of Ireland, when carrying troops from the Clyd