SS Oria (1920)

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Ste. Julienne

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The Oria was a Norwegian merchant ship off Cape Sounion ran on February 12, 1944 and sank, with around 4100 people were killed.

History

The ship was built in 1920 at the shipyard Osbourne, Graham & Company in North Hylton, Sunderland and delivered to the shipping company in Oslo Fearnley & Eger. In June 1940, the ship was interned in Casablanca. 1941, the ship of the Vichy government was assumed that it as Ste. Julienne in the Mediterranean began. In November 1942, the ship was reassigned to the Norwegian owner and renamed again in Oria, but subject to the same year of the Mediterranean shipping company in Hamburg.

In February 1944, the Oria was in a convoy of torpedo boats TA 16, TA 17 and TA 19 on a trip with 4046 Italian military internees, 90 German soldiers and 13 Greeks on board or Leros Rhodes to Piraeus. On February 12, the ship ran aground in a storm on the rocky coast near Cape Sounion and broke apart. First one day, achieve first rescue vehicles the site of the accident, but were able to save only a few castaways - 4,100 people died.