Orion
1935
(Albatros AL-139a)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 23,371 tons
- Dimensions: 665 x 82 x 34 ft.
- Machinery: Parsons geared steam turbines, twin screw, 24,000 SHP = 20 knots
- Passengers: 1,139 (486 first class, 653 tourist class)
- Crew: 466
- Builder: Vickers-Armstrong Shipbuilders, Limited, Barrow-in-Furness, England, 1935
- Service: Built for the Orient Line (British flag), London-Australia service. Maiden voyage 28 Sep 1935 London-Brisbane. Requisitioned for use as troopship 1939. In collision with battleship HMS Revenge Sep 1941. Reconditioned by builders 1946-47. Remeasured at 23,696 GRT with accommodations for 546 first class, 706 tourist class. Resumed Australian sailings 25 Feb 1947. Placed on transpacific service Sydney-Auckland-Vancouver-San Francisco 1954. Transferred to P&O-Orient Lines 1960. Used mostly as one-class ship for 1,691 tourists. Briefly used as hotel ship in Hamburg Jun 1963; scrapped later that year in Belgium.
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