SS Orduna
Tug towing SS Orduna to sea
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | SS Orduna |
| Owner: | Pacific Steam Navigation Company |
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| Port of registry: |
 Liverpool
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| Route: | North Atlantic |
| Builder: | Harland and Wolff, Belfast |
| Launched: | 2 October 1913 |
| Maiden voyage: | 19 February 1914 |
| Out of service: | November 1950 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1951 at Dalmuir, Scotland |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage: | 15,507 GRT |
| Length: | 550.3 feet (167.7 m) |
| Beam: | 67.3 feet (20.5 m) |
| Draught: | 35 feet 10 1⁄4 inches (10.93 m) |
| Depth: | 43.0 feet (13.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | Triple-expansion engines + low-pressure turbine; Triple screw |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 896 passengers |
SS Orduna was an ocean liner built in 1913–14 by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. After two voyages she was chartered to Cunard Line. In 1921 she went to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, then being resold to the PSNCo in 1926. Her sister ships were Orbita and Orca.
She provided transatlantic passenger transport, measured approximately 15,500 gross tons, and was 550.3 ft x 67.3 ft.
Orduna was requisitioned as an auxiliary cruiser and troop transport in the First World War running from Halifax, Canada to Liverpool with notables such as Quentin Roosevelt on board.
In January 1915 Orduna rescued the Russian crew of the sailing ship Loch Torridon, which had sprung a leak while transporting timber off the west coast of Ireland. Later in July 1915, en route to New York City, Orduna was targeted by a U-boat. The torpedo, which was spotted by Captain Hughes-Parry, missed the ship, which arrived safely.
In 1918 Orduna collided with the 4,406-ton steamer Konakry, carrying a cargo of ballast from Queenstown to Trinidad. Konkary was lost in the accident.
In April 1923 she was involved in another rescue, transporting the crew of the barquentine Clitha, which had been abandoned and set on fire, to England after they had been rescued by the schooner Jean Campbell.
In 1925, Dean James E. Lough of the Extra-Mural Division of the New York University chartered Orduna for the transport of 213 students to France, with lectures taking place on board.
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