The ship was built in 1920 at the Osbourne, Graham & Company shipyard in North Hylton, Sunderland and delivered to the Oslo shipping company Fearnley & Eger . In June 1940 the ship was interned in Casablanca. In 1941 the ship was placed under the Vichy government , which it called Ste. Julienne set in in the Mediterranean. In November 1942, the ship was transferred back to the Norwegian owners and renamed Oria again, but was subordinated to the Mediterranean shipping company in Hamburg that same year .
In February 1944 the Oria was in the company of the torpedo boats TA 16 , TA 17 and TA 19 on a journey with 4046 Italian military internees , 90 German soldiers and 13 Greeks on board from Leros and Rhodes to Piraeus. On February 12, the ship stranded in a storm on the rocky coast near Cape Sounion and broke apart. The first rescue vehicles only reached the scene of the accident one day later, but were only able to save a few castaways - around 4,100 people died.
literature
Hocking, Charles: Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam: Including Sailing Ships and Ships of War Lost in Action, 1824-1962 . 1st edition. Lloyd's Register of Shipping, London 1969, ISBN 0-900528-03-6 .
