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. `` ```` From Wedge's "Brown's Flags and Funnels" 1940

                       (OR) ORIENT STEAM NAVIGATION CO. LTD

                                        1877 Beginning of Regular Monthly Service to Australia.
                 Initially, via the Cape of Good Hope with return via Suez
                   but from 1883 both ways via Suez. The service started with
                 three ships from Pacific Steam Navigation Co. (.) and
                 one from the Royal Netherlands Steamship Co. (RNSC) but.
                 soon expanded into a joint service between Orient and
                 PSNC under Orient management as the Orient Line built
                 up its own fleet.

                      Peter Newall's "Orient Line: A Fleet History" (Ships in
   Focus Publication, U.K.2004) is a further source of pictures.

              List of Ships in Alphabetic Order

                            ACANAGUA – iscs 3bk 4,105gt 1872 Glasgow - Built for PSNC, under
Orient Line management 1878-1883.

       National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, U.K.


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AUSTRAL – stscs 4bk 5,524gt 1881 Glasgow

Watercolour by Harold John Graham    National Library of Australia
(nla.pic-an6438976)
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                   ASTURIAS – st2scs 12,002gt 1908 Belfast (Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.)
In1908-1909, made rergular voyages to Australia under charter to the
Orient Line .

                Website of the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"


                    CEPHALONIA – iscs 5,517gt 1882  Birkenhead(Cunard Line) In 1883,
made one return voyage to Australia under charter to the Orient Line

Website of the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"

CHIMBORAZO – iscs3bk 3,847gt 1871 Glasgow - Built for PSNC,
purchased by Orient 1878)

Photographer: F.C. Gould Peter Newall, op. cit.

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                    CITY OF LONDON – iscs 3,212gt 1876 Glasgow (City Line). In 1879,
made one or more return voyages to Australia under charter to the
Orient Line.

   National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, U.K.
(P16365)

                    COTOPAXI – iscs3bkn 4,022gt 1873  Glasgow - Built for PSNC, under
Orient Line management 1879-1882)                              :

Peter Newall, op. cit.

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CUZCO – iscs3bk 3,898gt 1871 Glasgow - Built for PSNC,
purchased by Orient 1878)

Photographer: F.C. Gould Peter Newall, op. cit.

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GARONNE – iscs3bk 3,876gt 1871 Glasgow - Built for PSNC,
purchased by Orient 1878)

Photographer: F.C.Gould    Peter Newall, op. cit.

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                    IBERIA – iscs 4,689gt 1873 Glasgow - Built for PSNC, under
Orient Line management 1883-1890)

Peter Newall op. cit.


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                    JOHN ELDER – iscs3bk 3,832gt 1869 - Built for PSNC, under
  Orient Line management  1877-1886)

Engraving Illustrated London News 1870

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                    LIGURIA – iscs 4,666gt 1874 Glasgow    Built for PSNC, under Orient
Line management 1880-1890.

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Photographer:: F.C. Gould        National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, U.K.
    (G634)

                    LUSITANIA – iscs3bk 3,877gt 1871 Birkenhead - Built for PSNC,
  purchased by Orient 1878

Photographer: F.C. Gould    Peter Newall op. cit.

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                    OMRAH – st2scs 1f2m 8,130gt 1899 Glasgow

From a postcard
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OPHIR – st2scs 2f2m 6,814gt 1891 Glasgow

From a postcard
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ORAMA – st3scs 2f2m 12,927gt 1911 Clydebank

Website of the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
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ORIENT – iscs 2f4bk 5,386gt 1879 Glasgow
(first ship built for the Orient Line)

Lithograph (after T.G. Dutton) National Maritime Museum, Greenwich,U.K.
       (PAH 5285)


                   ORITA – st2scs 1f2m 9,266gt 1903 Belfast - Built for PSNC, made one
return voyage to Australia under Orient Line management in 1903.

From a postcard

                    ORIZABA – stscs 2f4bkn 6,077gt 1886  Barrow - Built for PSNC, under
Orient Line Management 1886-1905

                 State Library of Queensland

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                    ORMUZ – stscs 2f4bk 6,031gt 1886 Glasgow

As built. Peter Newall, op. cit.


                    ORONTES – st2scs 1f2m 9,028gt 1902 Glasgow

Website of the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"


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                    ORATAVA – stscs 2f4m 5,857gt 1889 Barrow - Built for PSNC, under
Orient Line management 1890-1906)

              Photographer: F.C.Gould Peter Newall, op. cit.
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                    OROYA (II) – stscs4bkn 6,057gt 1886   Barrow - Built for PSNC, under
Orient Line  management 1886-1906.

   From a postcard

                    ORSOVA – st2scs 2f2m 12,026gt 1909  Clydebank

From a postcard

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                    ORTONA – st2scs 2f2m 7,945gt 1899 Barrow - Built for PSNC, under
Orient Line  management 1899-1909.

From a postcard


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                    ORUBA – stscs 2f4m 5,852gt 1889 Barrow - Built for PSNC, under
  Orient Line  management 1890-1906.           :

From a postcard

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ORVIETO – st2scs 2f2m 12,133gt 1909 Belfast

   From a postcard

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                    OSTERLY – st2scs 2f2m 12,129gt 1909  Glasgow

      From a postcard
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                    OTRANTO – st2scs 2f2m 12,124gt 1909   Belfast

                                        Dickson Gregory's "Australian Steamships"
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                    OTWAY – st2scs 2f2m 12,077gt 1909

From a postcard

POTOSI – iscs 4,218gt 1873 Glasgow - Built for PSNC, under Orient
Line management 1880-1887.

      "The Advent of Steam", editor Robert Gardiner


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                    SORATA – iscs3bkn 4,014gt 1872   Glasgow - Built for PSNC, under
  Orient Line management 1879 – 1886.

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, U.K.
(G1594)

STAD AMSTERDAM - iscs 3bkn 2,714t 1874 Glasgow (Royal Netherlands
Steamship Co.) In 1877, made one retutn voyage for the Orient Line.

Website of the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"

SULTAN – iscs 4,977gt 1892 Glasgow (R & H Green) - In 1879, made
one return voyage to Australia under charter to the Orient Line.

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   National Maritime Museum,Greenwich, U.K.
(G02331)

                    VICTORIA – st2scs 1f2mg 5,967gt 1902  Belfast   Built for PSNC, in
1902 made one return voyage to Australia for the Orient Line.

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   National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, U.K.
                       (G00132)

       Ships details from Duncan Haws’ “Merchant Fleets in Profile:1: The Ships of the
         P&O, Orient and Blue Anchor lines” (TCL Publications,Patrick Stephens Ltd,
         Cambridge 1878) and “Merchant Fleets:8: Pacific Steam Navigation Co.” (TCL
         Publications, East Sussex 1986). Additional details from John M. Maber’s
         “North Star to Southern Cross”(T. Stephenson & Sons, Prescot, Lancs. 1967)


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