Name SS Otway Beam 63 ft (19 m) Length 159 m | Fate Sunk 23 July 1917 Launched 1909 | |
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Tonnage 12,077 gross register tons (GRT) Propulsion Steam quadruple-expansion engines, twin screws | ||
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.
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