This article is about the British oceanliner Orion. For other ships, see Orion (ship).
RMS Orion, State Library of Queensland
History
United Kingdom
Name
RMS Orion
Operator
Orient Steam Navigation Company
Builder
Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire
Launched
7 December 1934
Completed
August 1935
Fate
Broken for scrap at Temse, 1963
General characteristics
Type
Ocean liner
Tonnage
23,371 GRT
Length
665 ft (203 m)
Beam
82 ft (25 m)
Draught
30 ft 8 in (9.35 m)
Propulsion
steam, 6 x Parsons SRG turbines (24,100 shp)
twin screws
Speed
21 kn (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Capacity
708 Cabin class
700 Tourist class
(from 1961, 1,691 one class)
Crew
466 (later 565)
RMS Orion was an ocean liner launched by the Orient Steam Navigation Company in 1934 and retired from the water in 1963 after carrying about 500,000 passengers. A 23,371 ton passenger ship, the Orion was built to carry 486 first class, 653 tourist class passengers and 466 crew from Europe through the Pacific to Australia. The construction of the ship was documented in Paul Rotha's 1935 film Shipyard.[1]
The vessel's sister ship was Orcades, launched in 1936.
^"BFI Screenonline: Shipyard (1935)". British Film Institute. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
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