Orontes
1929
(Albatros AL-209)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 19,970 tons
- Dimensions: 664 x 75 ft.
- Machinery: Steam turbines, twin screws = 20 knots
- Passengers: 1612 (500 1st class, 1112 2nd class)
- Builder: Vickers-Armstrong Shipbuilders, Limited, Barrow-in-Furness, England, 1929
- Service: Built for the Orient Line (British flag), London Australia service.
Troopship duties, 1940-47. Resumed Australian service, 1948. Scrapped in Spain, 1962.
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