Orion
1935
(Albatros AL-139a)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 23,371 tons
- Dimensions: 665 x 82 ft.
- Machinery: Steam turbines, twin screws = 20 knots
- Passengers: 1139 (486 1st class, 653 tourist class)
- Builder: Vickers-Armstrong Shipbuilders, Limited, Barrow-in-Furness, England, 1935
- Service: Built for the Orient Line (British flag), London-Australia service.
Troopship, 1939-46. Resumed Australian sailings, 1947-63. Transferred to P&O-Orient
Lines, 1960. Scrapped in Belgium, 1963.
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