SS Orsova
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| History | |
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| Name | SS Orsova |
| Owner | Orien Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
| Builder | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Yard number | 383 |
| Launched | 7 Nov 1908 |
| Completed | 1909 |
| In service | 25 Jun 1909 |
| Out of service | 1936 |
| Fate | broken up for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ocean Liner |
| Tonnage | 12,026 tons |
| Length | 536.2 ft (163.43m) |
| Beam | 63.3 ft (19.29m) |
| Depth | 34.3 ft (10.46m) |
| Propulsion | twin screw |
| Speed | 18 knots (33.34 km/h) |
Remarks
Owned by the Orient Steam Navigation Company, providing a passenger service to Australia via the Suez Canal. Passengers: 1310 (consisting of 280 first class, 130 second class, 900 third class).
Commandeered as a troopship in 1915. On 14 March 1917, she was damaged by a mine laid by German submarine UC-68 and beached at Cawsand Bay in Cornwall, but was refloated and towed to Devonport for repairs. Six casualties. In 1919 she was used to return troops to Australia.
She was able to resume the passenger service on the UK to Australia route in 1919. Refitted as a one class ship in 1933, her last voyage was on 20 June 1936, before being broken up at Bo'ness in Scotland later that year.