SS Orsova (1909)
Registration Number: 128278
The Orsova (I) was put into service a 1909 passenger ship in the British shipping company Orient Steam Navigation Company, which was used in passenger and mail traffic from the UK to Australia. 1936, the steamer in Scotland was scrapped.
The ship
The 12,036 -ton steamship Orsova was built at the shipyard of John Brown & Company in Clydebank, near Glasgow, and launched on November 7, 1908 from the stack. The 162.76 meters long and 18.89 meters wide ship had two chimneys, two masts and two propellers and was powered by two eight-cylinder quadruple expansion steam engines, which enabled a speed of 18 knotter. The ship was designed to carry 290 passengers in first, 126 in the second and 660 in third class. The passengers of the first class were standing next to the dining room and the smoking-room, a music room, a lounge, a reading and writing room, a veranda café, several bars and spacious promenade decks available. In addition, an electrically operated lift was available.
The Orsova had five identical sister ships that entered service in 1909-1911: The Otway ( 12,077 GRT), the Osterley ( 12,129 GRT), the Otranto ( I) ( 12,077 GRT), the Orvieto ( 12,133 GRT) and the Orama ( I) ( 12,927 GRT). On June 25, 1909, the Orsova ran in London on her maiden voyage on Sue from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. On this route it wrong until the First World War.
In April 1915 she was converted into a troop transport, undertook in 1916 as well as two civilian trips to Australia. It transported supplies Australian forces to Egypt and Europe. On March 14, 1917, she was torpedoed near the Eddystone lighthouse by an unknown submarine, but could be set at Cawsend Bay due. The Orsova was towed to Devonport and repaired there. On November 22 1919 she took the commercial passenger and mail traffic on the route London - Sydney - Brisbane again. In 1933 she was converted into a Einklassenschiff.
On 20 June 1936 she ran in London for the last time to Australia and on 21 October the same year they arrived in Bo'ness (Scotland ), where she was scrapped.