Subtitles of the picture in website: "Swift calculations by a senior engineer at Vickers Armstrong in Barrow-in-Furness saved the brand new Orient Line passenger ship Oronsay from worse damage after fire spread through her on the night of 28 October 1950. The huge volume of water pumped into the shi
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Companys Oronsay, photographed on her trials in April 1951.
Launched on 30 May 1951 her completion was delayed by eight weeks after she caught fire in the fitting out berth at her Barrow builders in Oct 1950. A fire which took two days to put out.
Model of the Orient Line's ORONSAY in the Queensland State Museum in Brisbane.
The model was originally of the ORCADES but was rebadged as the ORONSAY when the Orcades was broken up in 1973.
The model is 4.9m long and was originally displayed in the P&O Building in Brisbane.
Built 1951 at Ba
The model was originally of the ORCADES but was rebadged as the ORONSAY when the Orcades was broken up in 1973.
The model is 4.9m long and was originally displayed in the P&O Building in Brisbane.
Built 1951 at Barrow-in-Furness, UK.
27,632 Grt 216m Originally 668 1st class and 830 tour
Oronsay about to leave Sydney on an overcast afternoon for the last time 16 September 1975 from 13 Pyrmont. The power station and chimneys have since been replaced with the Sydney Casino on the right