The 9028 GRT steamship Orontes was built by Fairfield Shipbuilders in Govan and launched on May 10, 1902. The 156.54 meter long and 17.73 meter wide passenger and mail ship had a chimney, two masts and two propellers and was powered by steam engines, which enabled a speed of 18 knots. The passenger capacity was 200 passengers in first, 200 in second and 600 in third class.
On October 24, 1902, ran Orontes in London on her maiden voyage across Sues to Melbourne and Sydney from. In October 1916 she was taken over by the British Admiralty and used as a troop transport in the First World War. As early as August 1917, the Admiralty returned the ship so that it could continue to transport food to Australia in its refrigerated cargo holds. On October 25, 1919, the Orontes resumed service in Australia with stops in Gibraltar , Toulon , Port Said , Colombo , Fremantle , Adelaide , Melbourne and Sydney.
The ship also made several Atlantic crossings from Liverpool to Boston and New York after the war . Since the Orontes could no longer keep up with newer ships after the war, she was laid up on the Thames in 1921 and in March 1922 by the British World Trade Expeditions Ltd. Bought. Under the name British Trade , she was to serve as an exhibition ship. In the end, however, these plans were not implemented. Five months later, in August 1922, she was bought back by the Orient Line and used again as the Orontes in passenger traffic to Australia until she was sold to Thomas W. Ward Shipbreakers Ltd. in November 1925. was scrapped in Inverkeithing (Scotland).
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