ORONTES underway 1958

The RMS ORONTES looking just beautiful photographed underway at sea from another Orient Line ship by Michael Sutcliffe. The location was the Indian Ocean and the year 1958. Note the Blue Ensign. Those meetings of fleet mates at the open ocean were magic moments.

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ORONTES ON THE SUEZ CANAL

Another beautiful image by Michael Sutcliffe taken on board the Orient Line passenger liner ORONTES on the Suez Canal.
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ORONTES on the Indian Ocean

The British passenger liner ORONTES steaming on the Indian Ocean in South West Monsoon condition, towards the end of her long career.
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ORONTES in dry dock 1959

Orient Line passenger liner ORONTES photographed by Michael Sutcliffe at the Tilbury dry dock in May 1959.
Built in 1929 by Vickers-Armstrongs in Barrow in Furness, she survived WW2 and operated until early 1962. Sold to Spanish breakers and broken up in Valencia where she arrived on5th March 1962.

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