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Orcoma Ship1

?, #15208, b. 1908, d. June 1933
Pedigree
Last Edited: 11 Jun 2020
  • (Child) Birth*: Orcoma Ship was born in 1908; ORCOMA 1908
    11,546 gross tons, length 511.6ft x beam 62.2ft, one funnel, two masts, twin screw, speed 14.5 knots, accommodation for 246-1st, 202-2nd, 106-intermediate and 456-3rd class passengers. 247 crew. Launched on 2nd Apr.1908 by Wm. Beardmore & Co., Dalmuir. Glasgow for Pacific Steam Navigation Co., Liverpool, she started her maiden voyage on 27th Aug., when she left Liverpool for the West Coast of South America via Straits of Magellan. She was the largest and fastest vessel on the South American Pacific coast route at the time. From Mar.1915 she served as an Armed Merchant Cruiser with the 10th Cruiser Squadron on the Northern Patrol, fitted with 6 x 6inch guns and 2 x 6 pounder guns. On 7th Nov.1919 she reverted to PSNCo service via the Panama Canal and in 1923 was modernised and converted from coal to oil fuel. Jun.1933 scrapped at Blyth having been replaced by the REINA DEL PACIFICO. [Merchant Fleets, vol.8 by Duncan Haws]2
  • (Deceased) Death*: Orcoma Ship died in June 1933.2
  • (Ship) Passenger List*: Orcoma Ship passenger list included Horace Augustus Aldridge when she sailed on 2 October 1912 at Liverpool, England, . Departed for Liverpool on board the Orcoma 2 October 1912.1

Citations

  1. [S49] Website Web Site online (www.) Falkland Islands Government, Jane Cameron National Archives http://www.fig.gov.fk/archives/index.php/online-collections/people/19th-century-families/a-to-c
    Jeremy Moore Avenue, P.O. Box 687, Stanley, Falkland Islands, FIQQ 1ZZ
    e-mail address [Oct 2016].
  2. [S49] Website Web Site online (www.) http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ShipsO.shtml [May 2019].