HMAT A67 Orsova
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| History | |
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| Name | HMAT A67 Orsova |
| Owner | Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
| Builder | John Brown & Co, Clydebank |
| Yard number | 383 |
| Launched | 7 Nov 1908 |
| Completed | 1909 |
| In service | 1909 |
| Out of service | 21 Oct 1936 |
| Fate | scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger Liner |
| Tonnage | 12,041 tons |
| Length | 536.2 ft (163.43m) |
| Beam | 63.3 ft (19.29m) |
| Depth | 34.3 ft (10.45m) |
| Propulsion | twin screw |
| Speed | 18 knots (33.34 kph) |
| Capacity | 1310 passengers |
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Remarks
Owned by Pacific & Oriental Steam Navigation Co Ltd, of London to operate a passenger service between London and Australia (via the Suez Canal).. Could carry 280 first class, 130 second class, and 900 third class passengers. Requisitioned as a troop ship by the Commonwealth from 1915 until 28 Feb 1917 (when her management was transferred to the British Admiralty), she made five voyages from Australia.
On 14 Mar 1917, while operating for the British Admiralty, at 4:50pm she was damaged by either a torpedo fired by the German submarine U-68, or a mine laid by the same submarine. Beached in Cornwall, she was towed to Devonport where she was repaired, but given the priority of other work repairs were not completed before the end of hostilities. In 1919 she resumed her UK - Australia route. (See SS Orsova for 1919 activities). Her last voyage was in 1936 before she was broken up in Scotland.
Soldiers carried
Fremantle to Port Suez 22 Jul - ?? Aug 1915
- Catherine Ann McGillivray as nursing staff
- James Francis Ottaway as part of medical staff
Sydney to Port Suez 10 November - 8 December 1915
Embarked in Melbourne on 12 November
Sydney to Suez 11 March - 14 April 1916
Embarked in Melbourne on 16 March
Sydney to Plymouth 29 July - 14 September 1916
Embarked in Melbourne on 1 August
- Benjamin Jones
- Thomas Edward Tyrell Marshall Post WW1 men
Other Voyages
- 14 July 1915 from Sydney via Melbourne on 17 July 1915
- 2 December 1916 from Sydney via Melbourne on 6 December 1916
29 July 1916 from Sydney, New South Wales