SS Orsova (1954)

SS Orsova a 1503-passenger ocean liner was built by Vickers Armstrong Shipbuilders Ltd. of Barrow-in-Furness England in 1954 for the Orient Steam Navigation Company for UK to Australia services via the Suez Canal the voyage taking four weeks. After 1955 the return trip was eastward via Auckland Suva Honolulu Vancouver San Francisco Los Angeles Panama Trinidad and Cherbourg. She had a gross tonnage of 28 790 tons. Length: 220 metres. Breadth: 28 metres. Cruising speed: 22 knots.

notice that the SS Orsova was part of the Orient shipping line. My late father, Frank Burt, served on the Orsova when it sailed from Tilbury on ...1
arrived SS Orsova on 5 May 1925. Oldest son, Charles Gilbert arrived SS Moreton Bay on 21 March 1927.2
I went to sea at age 16 in SS Orsova for P&O and later on worked for Shell Oil on the tanker SS Asprella.3
SS Orsova in all her glory............4
P&O SS Orsova Docked in Suva 1964 P&O SS Orsova Docked in Suva 1964 Made by D70 SS Orsova, a 1503-passenger ocean liner, was built by 5

^ The boys who arrived on the SS Orsova on 11 July 1914 in the grandstand at the Jubilee Oval behind the Exhibition Building, North Terrace, Adelaide (glass negative no. 1102).6
the SS Orsova in 1912. James (1863) was a self-employed baker whose bakery in England was at the rear of their Surrey home.7
SS ORSOVA at Honolulu, July 1972. Photo and copyright Ted Scull 1972.8
On the 8th Dec 1928 he left England on the SS Orsova for Australia. In 1931 he is living at 45 Myrtle St, Bendigo, Vic, Australia and is working as a blacksmith.9
" The SS Orsova was requisitioned for use as a troopship and was torpedoed by a U-Boat on 14th March 1917 some 3 miles from Eddystone.10

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