SS Otway
SS Otway
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| Name: | SS Otway |
| Owner: | Orient Steam Navigation Company |
| Builder: | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Launched: | 1909 |
| Fate: | Sunk 23 July 1917 |
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| Tonnage: | 12,077 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length: | 522 ft (159 m) |
| Beam: | 63 ft (19 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam quadruple-expansion engines, twin screws |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
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SS Otway was a British ocean liner owned by the Orient Line, built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Glasgow, Scotland and launched in 1909.
She had five sister ships; Orsova, Osterley, Otranto, Orvieto, and the Orama. These ships allowed the Orient Line a prized attraction to the traveling public: fixed sailings every other week to Australia and New Zealand. Requisitioned by the Royal Navy and deployed as an armed merchant cruiser, Otway was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat SM UC-49 off the Hebrides on 23 July 1917 during World War I, with the loss of 10 lives.
Coordinates: 58°54′N 6°28′W / 58.900°N 6.467°W
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