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Sunday 14 April 2024

British troop transport HMS Orontes 1862-1893

Designed for troop transport to the West Indies and southern Africa, launched by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, England on 22 November 1862, commissioned March/20 April 1863, lenghtened by Laird in 1875 and sold in 1893 to be broken up.

Sources

Francis Elgar. The Royal Navy 1872-1880 in a series of illustrations. Lithographed in colours. From original drawings by W.F. Mitchell, esquire. Portsmouth, December 1880.

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