Ormuz

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Ormuz
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Ship data
flag United KingdomUnited Kingdom (Service Flag at Sea) United Kingdom
other ship names
  • Divona (1912)
Ship type Passenger ship
home port Glasgow
Shipping company Orient Steam Navigation Company
Shipyard Fairfield Shipbuilders ( Govan )
Build number 317
Launch September 29, 1886
takeover December 1886
Commissioning February 3, 1887
Whereabouts Wrecked in 1922
Ship dimensions and crew
length
146.91 m ( Lüa )
width 15.85 m
measurement 6031 GRT
Machine system
machine Steam engine
Machine
performance 		8500 hp
Top
speed 		18 kn (33 km / h)
propeller 1
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers I. class: 106
II. Class: 170
III. Class: 120
Others
Registration
numbers 		Register number: 93341

The Ormuz (I) was a passenger ship of the British shipping company Orient Steam Navigation Company , which was put into service in 1887 and was used in passenger and mail traffic from Great Britain to Australia .

history

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The 6031 GRT steamship Ormuz was built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan and was launched on September 29, 1886. She was the third ship of the Orient Steam Navigation Company and the second to be built from structural steel .

The 146.91 meter long and 15.85 meter wide ship had two funnels, four masts equipped with complete rigging and a single screw . Their machines made 8,500 hp; the maximum speed was 18 knots. The ship was designed to carry 106 passengers in the first, 170 in the second and 120 in the third class.

The Ormuz was completed in December 1886 and on February 3, 1887, she sailed from London on her maiden voyage to Melbourne and Sydney via Suez . On April 13, 1900, the Ormuz was the first British mail ship to enter the new port of Fremantle . She stayed on the Australian route until 1911. The following year she was sold to the French shipping company Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique , based in Bordeaux , and from then on used under the name Divona on the South America route. She provided this service for ten years. During the First World War she was also used as a hospital ship. On June 11, 1922, she arrived in Savona (Italy) for demolition .

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