Category:Orama (ship, 1924)

**Q2027978**
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Instance of	passenger vessel;
Operator	Orient Steam Navigation Company;
Manufacturer	Vickers;
Yard number	598;
Shipping port	London;
Country of registry	United Kingdom;
Beam	22.9 m;
Draft	10.1 m;
Length	192.6 m;
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BUILDER: Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness, England – for the Orient Steam Navigation Co
COMPLETED: inaugural voyage London-Brisbane, November 1924
BASE PORT: London
GROSS TONNAGE: 19,770 grt
DIMENSIONS: 201.m x 23m, draught 9m
POWER: Six Parsons S.R.G. steam turbines @ 20,000 SHP
SERVICE SPEED: 20 knots
SCREWS: Twin
PASSENGER DECKS: Eight
CREW: 420
PASSENGERS: 590 first and 1240 third
LIVERY; Originally black (changed to Corn later on), white superstructure, yellow funnel, red boot-topping

Converted to a troopship in 1940, she was used to take members of the British Expeditionary Force to Norway after the German invasion. On the 8th June 1940, she was 300 miles West of Narvik, together with the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious, two destroyers and an oil tanker, when she was spotted by a German naval task force comprising Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Admiral Hipper. All five Allied ships were sunk with heavy loss of life. Orama lost 19 killed and 280 taken prisoner.

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