I wonder what happened to it in the orion’s final days.I was an 11 year old boy when I sailed with my family from Tilbury to Sydney on the Orion departing February 1947 we stayed in Australia for 3 years before returning to England on the RMS Otranto.I had my sixth birthday on the Orion in June 1953 while at sea. One in particular was Freddie (jock) pickard from Scotland. White; and commissioned 30 September 1943, Capt.
Very fond memories of trip & one of my younger sisters was also five years old when we left. I was ten and have wonderful memories of the trip.I emigrated to NZ on the Orion in March 1962. However, during a stop in Delhi and a visit to the Taj Mahal I was rushed into hospital for an emergency appendectomy.
They left after June 1959. I must admit it was good to find the information on the internet about the Orion, I remember the Journey very well, although it is now 63 years agoI’ve just been given a pewter tankard from the SS Orion and so am trying to find out a little more about her.Our family made this voyage. Thanks , KellyI emigrated to Australia in May 1960. We had to wait in one of the Bitter Lakes whilst another ship headed north, and it was very peculiar to see a ship apparently floating on the sand as it approached. Elaine would have been 9. We carried many families that were emigrating to Australia, and Australians taking a Pacific holiday cruise.I was evacuated, as an infant, on Orion in early 1942, from Singapore. I also have the souvenirs same as everyone else and married another migrant later on who had same tourist loot.Looking for a photograph of Maurice John Sarson , captain of the Orion in 1937I lived in Calcutta, India from 1958 to 1960 together with my parents and elder sister. It was just a wonderful experience for a working class kid from Yorkshire. We were all sea sick first day in Bay Biscay very rough.
Seen as a floating hotel in Hamburg. There was a time when I could find information about this voyage, on the internet…now, it is nowhere to be found. Seeking confirmation of departure date from Tilbury.My Grandad Doug Sharkey was a Second Chef on the Orion in the 1950’s. I came across a photo of ss Orion and decided to see what was ‘on the net’. In fact her entire interior design was ground-breaking in that she departed from the formal english styles found in wealthy British homes of the time, and adapted a more open-air and spacious layout that was better suited to tropical cruising.
ORION 1935-1963, Sydney March 25, 1950.SHF Coll. She was chartered for four months as a floating hotel at the “International Horticultural Exhibition in Hamburg, where she arrived on May 23, 1963. I was ten at the time but remember it like it was yesterday. ORION 1935-1963, outbound Fremantle, pre WW2.SHF Coll. Have found her with my aunt Eileen Esther Risby on board the Orion that left London 29th April 1949 for Melbourne. For other ships, see We saw several masts sticking out of the water from ships which had been sunk.
Booklet containing the list of passengers travelling from New Zealand to Australia on the Orient Line 'Orion', in 1955-56, some of whom were return British migrants. Where can I require a crew list for SS Orion from tilbury to Australia 1960 December.
A 23,371 ton passenger ship, the Orion was built to carry 486 first class, 653 tourist class and 466 crew passengers from Europe through the Pacific to Australia. We arrived in Sydney on 10th June. What a wonderful, never to be forgotten six weeks. The return tickets were valued for 5 … This turned out to be a trip on SS Orion. I was aboard her when she was turned back from the Suez due to the crisis that took place. RMS Orion was probably the most famous of the Australian immigrant ships. Orient Steam Navigation Company - RMS/SS Orion - 1935 to 1963. We were on G deck and felt sorry for the Greeks who seemed to be really crammed in to that one deck. USS Orion (AS–18) was a Fulton-class submarine tender of the United States Navy.She was laid down 31 July 1941 at the Moore Dry Dock Company, Oakland, California; launched 24 June 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Robert A. A number got off again and were arrested, whereupon, scramble nets were dropped over the ship’s side and troops swarmed down to rescue the detainees, while sympathisers on board pelted the military police with petrol cans and fittings ripped out of the ship. The music is the second movement of Schumann's piano concerto Artur Rubinstein piano Josef Kripps conductor. OTRANTO 1926-57, passes S and T class RAN destroyers and a c OTRANTO 1926-1957, outbound, SHF Coll. By the time she was released from service in 1946, She was the first Orient Line to make a postwar voyage to Australia, sailing from Tilbury on 27 February 1947.