RMS Orion is a marine vessel launched by the East Steam Navigation Company in 1934 and retired from water in 1963 after carrying about 500,000 passengers. A 23,371 ton passenger ship, Orion was built to carry the first 486 classes, 653 tourist classes and 466 passengers crew from Europe via the Pacific to Australia. The ship's construction is documented in Paul Rotha's 1950 film 'Shipyard'.
The ship's sister ship is Orcades , launched in 1937.
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Design and construction
Orion is an enlarged version of SS Orontes , and the first single-line funnel built for the Orient Line since 1902. He also has one pole, giving him a very different appearance to his predecessor. He was the first ship to be painted with Orient Line livery with a corn-colored hull.
The accommodation was originally designed for 486 First Class passengers and 653 Class Tourists, with a crew of 466. While sailing in cruise ships he accommodated 600 passengers in one class.
Orion is called "A landmark in modern linear evolution" by Architecture Review . The previous upholstery has adopted a formal and formally decorated interior design style found in the homes of wealthy people in Britain, however, Brian O'Rorke, a New Zealand-born designer in charge of Orion ' Orion is also the first British ship equipped with air conditioning, although it was initially limited to the dining room.
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Careers
Launched by Duke of Gloucester from Brisbane, Australia with wireless remote, Orion slid into Lancashire waters in the Vickers Armstrong yard at Barrow-in-Furness on December 7, 1934.
He was sent to the owner in August 1935 and made a series of cruises from Tilbury Docks, London, the first being to Norway. On September 29, 1935 he sailed from Tilbury on his maiden voyage to Australia. Orion alternated between a voyage to Australia with a short cruise until the outbreak of World War II, when he was asked by the British government as an army.
Service war
The first voyage of Orion ' as an army was to Egypt, then to Wellington, New Zealand to transport troops to Europe. He left Wellington on January 6, 1940 and sailed in a convoy to Sydney, Australia, to meet his sister ship Orcades, a convoy that sailed from Australia to Egypt.
On September 15, 1941, when part of the convoy brought troops to Singapore, he followed the HMS Revenge warship in the South Atlantic when the warship's steering wheel was damaged and Orion crashed into the battlefield. Revenge , the impact that caused severe damage to the Orion 'arc . He went on to Cape Town where temporary repairs were made and then proceeded to Singapore where more permanent repairs were made. The Japanese army is currently advancing in Singapore, so Orion is called to evacuate civilians to Australia.
In October 1942 Orion was one of the many former passenger liners who took part in the Operation Torch, and made two trips to North Africa carrying over 5,000 troops each time. In 1943 his troop carrying capacity was increased to 7,000 with other vessels such as the USS West Point playing a major part in the transport of the Allied troops.
On December 17, 1942, "Orion" sailed from Liverpool with the 12th Corps and REME amongst the others. Arrived in Freetown on December 31, 1942 and then Durban on January 18, 1943.
His role as a tapered army in the Pacific theater but he still carry troops around 5,000 times. By the time he was released from service in 1946, Orion had brought more than 175,000 personnel and steamed over 380,000 mi (610,000 km).
Postwar
Orion returned to the Vickers Armstrong page in Barrow on May 1, 1946 to be reassembled as a passenger ship. Its repayment takes one year, and includes a redesign to accommodate 546 First Class and 706 Class Tourers.
He was the first Orient Line to travel post-war to Australia, sailing from Tilbury on September 29, 1947. After that, his voyage included three cruises to the West coast of the United States including San Francisco, and a voyage from Europe to Australia.
In 1958 he repented to bring 342 Kabin Classes and 722 Tourist Class passengers on an independent schedule, and in 1961 he became a single-class ship carrying a maximum of 1,691 passengers, although demand for voyages to Australia declined.
Orion had retired in 1963, and left on his last voyage on February 28, 1963, sailing to Sydney, Australia via Piraeus, Greece and Suez. He left for Sydney for the last time on April 8th through Melbourne and Fremantle, arriving back at Tilbury on May 15, 1963.
He was then hired by Otto Friedrich Behnke GmbH as a floating hotel during the International Horticulture Exhibition in Hamburg, accommodating 1,150 guests. Orion arrived in Hamburg on May 23, 1963; The exhibition ended on September 30 and on October 1 he left Hamburg for Antwerp, where he was broken by Jos Boel et Fils.
"Orion" diubah menjadi kapal kelas satu yang membawa imigran dari Tilbury pada 18 Maret 1958 ke Australia. Penumpang terwujud untuk pelayaran itu.
Referensi
- Goossens, Reuben. "Orient Line - RMS Orion". ssMaritime.com.
- Lloyd Jenkins, Douglas. 40 Legenda Desain Selandia Baru. Auckland, N.Z.: Godwit, 2006.
- Maxtone-Graham, John. Liners to the Sun . New York: Macmillan, 1985.
- Mulliss, Steve. Juli 2003. Sejarah RMS Orion. [1]
- Van der Ven, Martin. RMS Orion. [2]
Tautan eksternal
Winchester, Clarence, ed. (1937), "RMS Orion", Keajaiban Dunia Pengiriman , pp. 1138-1146 , diilustrasikan deskripsi kapal.
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