However, two points need to be noted. The Azores, the Canaries and Madeira are given their own identities within the destination country list. Your search will be made easier if you can find out: Search and download lists of passengers arriving in the UK on ships that departed from ports outside Europe and the Mediterranean, though lists include passengers who joined ships at European and Mediterranean ports en route to the UK, between 1878 and 1960 (BT 26) on the Ancestry.co.uk () website. Separate lists were kept for British (and Commonwealth) passengers and Alien passengers. IMMIGRATION REGISTER AND PASSENGER LISTS (A.150); REGISTER OF MIGRANTS ARRIVING ON IMMIGRANT SHIPS ENTERING QLD (IMM/128, IMM/138). Credit Line: ANMM Collection Gift from Dennis McLoughry. Description: frigate of the Royal Navy. The ship was built in 1929 by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, England . These voyages often called en route at additional ports, including those in Europe, and any passengers disembarking at these stops are included. Medium: Paper. Media in category "Orontes (ship, 1929)" The following 5 files are in this category, out of 5 total. Rare 1906 passenger information brochure from the Orient-Royal Mail Line that carried passengers and mail betwen the UK and Australia, the voyage taking about 33 days each way. Content from A1 Microfilm Roll Public Access Copy. Fremantle. document.write("to:"); Its sister ships were Orama (II), Orford, Oronsay, and Otranto (II). "Passenger Ships of the Orient Line". Service speed: 21 knots. Due to major building activity, some collections are unavailable. A summary of passenger totals, including births and deaths, may also be included. Orontes was the last of the "Orama" Class and great effort was taken to make the public rooms of Orontes the best of this class. [1], The ship served on the England to Australia route from 1948 to 1962, being refitted as a single class passenger ship at Thornycroft in 1953. If the card is for a child, you will be able to view the relevant parent's detail on the reverse of the card; similarly, if you find a parent travelling with a child, you will be able to view both sides of the card for the same charge. What can I copy and re-use without a copyright owner's permission? Index to Assisted British Immigration 1839-1871 on the PROV website. 1954 Nov 12. 1886-1905 Orient Line Australia service, 1905 wrecked near The ship was built in 1929 by Vickers Armstrong LTD. at Barrow-in-Furness, England. The Orontes' maiden voyage was a Mediterranean Cruise in June 1929. document.write("to:"); However, in other instances, the port in question can be small and obscure, or now known by a different name, or not have a unique name. Details for each entry for a passenger include the name, whether married or single, male or female and age, whether a child 1-12 or an infant. 1940 bombed and beached at Marseilles while evacuating troops SS Orontes was a passenger ship owned by Orient Line. Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 Discover your ancestors who left Ireland and Great Britain between 1890 and 1960. vessel. 2.1 England to Fremantle 10 March - 4 May 1918 2.2 Sydney to Liverpool 5 June - 11 August 1918 Remarks Built for the Orient Line, and able to carry 200 first class passengers, 200 second class, and 600 third class. 1915 became Armed Merchant Cruiser, 1918 sold to Admiralty Common items of ephemera in our maritime collection include passenger lists, brochures, event and entertainment programs, and other memorabilia produced for a voyage or ship. NB: A partial index to these passenger lists can be found online (1848-1884, 1884-1912) and via eResources (1900-1915). London, Naples, via Suez Canal, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney. Rights and the Oral History and Folklore Collection. The State Library of Queensland provides the following guides relating to passengers, immigration and shipping: The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australias First Nations Peoples the First Australians as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land and gives respect to the Elders past and present and through them to all Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Consult the section on External Links to Other Institutions to find a nominal index for that time period. It is available for free public use at all National Archives research facilities and many public libraries. In each case, viewing the image of the passenger list will reveal the exact term used and the precise destination of the passenger. The collection includes ship passenger arrivals, crew lists, air arrivals, and quarantine lists. 1906 - Orient-Royal Mail Line of Steamers 1942 torpedoed and sunk off Liberia while troopship. However, many of the pre-1890 lists were irregularly destroyed by the Board of Trade in 1900. mc N 761, in the Family History Area. ex- Zeppelin, 1920 - 1927 built in 1914,(. Of course, this wonderful piece of nautical history has served as an invaluable piece of research material for my novel The Merry . These lists do not include passengers who joined ships en route. Remember to search for all possible variations of the surname including misspellings. Its sister ships were Orama (II), Orford, Oronsay, and Otranto (II). Date. River ports on such navigable rivers as the Amazon and the Yukon mean that, for example, inland locations such as Manaus (Brazil) and Dawson City (Canada) are included. Although most passengers travelled beyond Europe, a significant number sailed to the UK. If you do open up a destination port drop-down list, you will see an A-Z alphabetical list of available ports. The SS Orontes was a passenger ship owned by Orient Line. For records of passengers after 1960 it may be worth contacting the relevant shipping line. Quite the same Wikipedia. You can of course reduce this option to 'exact' or '+/- 1 year' but you may be less likely to achieve a successful result if you do. To see the passenger list, use the Book and Page above, to find the correct microfiche in Assisted Immigrants from UK, 1839-1871, Compartment 21, Call no. Generally, in our experience, cards give more biographical information than their matching lists. SS Orontes was a passenger ship owned by Orient Line. 1954 Nov 10. . [2] The Orontes was scrapped at Valencia, Spain in 1962. Aliases: Bourdjou-Zaffer. in the Family History Area or check the Ancestry.com index and images of passenger lists. +61 (0)2 6262 1111Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600Australia. Finally, the islands of the Caribbean have been grouped together under a single West Indies heading, with the exception of the large islands of Cuba, Haiti/Dominican Republic and Jamaica, which have their own entries. SS Orontes.jpg 662 922; 119 KB. Lists were not kept for every ship and some have been lost, but those that survive are becoming increasingly available online and new indexes afford us much better access to them. document.write("s.swig"); Passenger lists on ships continued until 1965, when cards completely replaced lists for both air and sea travel. The ship was built in 1929 by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, England . You need to bear in mind also that a significant proportion of passengers are shown on the original list without an age - these 'blank' ages are shown in your returned results together with those of the right year of birth, so that you can consider them as well. If you are unsure how a name was spelt, or cannot find it with the usual spelling, try using the wildcard facility. Collectie Fotocollectiie Afdrukken ANEFO Rousel, fotonummer 157-0455, Bestanddeelnr 157-0455.jpg. Learn more Useful links Who First name (s) Name variants Last name Findmypast currently has the following Queensland-related immigration and passenger resources available: In addition to their records provided through Ancestry, State Records NSW also provides the following Queensland-related records and indexes online: The Queensland State Archives provides the followingimmigration indexesonline: In addition to our subscription databases, the Library also provides access to the following networked CDROM resources: For more information aboutthese resources, visit theeResources portal, click the Browse eResourcestab and search for the name of the resource. Westfal Larsen. Photographs and important passenger information was included. Passenger lists are not held by The National Archives after 1960, when air travel became more common. The Assisted Immigrants index on the State Records of New South Wales website may contain names not on the lists above, for the period 1839-1851. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1897; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, 675 rolls); Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36; National Archives, Washington, D.C. UK passenger lists do not record travel within Europe unless a ship called at more than one European port before travelling further afield. Some sailed on the Wilhelmina on 23 July 1919 . Orient Steam Navigation Company / Orient-Royal Mail Line / Orient Line. John Elder. Further information on how to find these items can be found in Family History Sources in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room. Some destination ports can be difficult to distinguish in the early handwritten records. We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. Most passenger listsheld at the National Library are on microfilm or microfiche and arelocated inthe Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room. However, where this is unclear or not stated, the destination of the ship is given for the passenger instead. Orontes was the last of the "Orama" Class and great effort was taken to make the public rooms of Orontes the best of this class. 1883 Cape voyages discontinued and the route became London - Gibraltar - Port Said - Merchant Cruiser; loss of 10 lives. To see the passenger list, use the Book and Page above, to find the correct microfiche in Assisted Immigrants from UK, 1839-1871, Compartment 21, Call no. How do I acknowledge the Library in my publication? SS ORONTES was the last of Orient Line's five 20,000 ton Orama class ships built in the 1920s for the mail and passenger service between the United Kingdom and Australia. These are contained within The National Archives' BT26 record series. I have seen the passenger manifests. Share on Facebook - opens in a new window or tab, Share on Twitter - opens in a new window or tab, Share . Also included are a few ships which were renamed 'Empire' at the time of the Suez crisis. The differences between these different copies of the same list are usually cosmetic but there are sometimes also minor differences in content or in the Board of Trade's annotations or stamps upon them. Where an age is given for a passenger in the original list, we have calculated the approximate year of birth using the simple subtraction of the age from the year of voyage. Briefly resumed service, only to be scrapped in 1926. File: P & O Orient Line - SS Oronsay passenger lists & publications. Launched in 1929, it was one of the longest serving liners on the England to Australia route, carrying tens of thousands of British and European migrants to new lives in Australia. For instance, if you search by last name without a first name, results without given forenames top the list, followed by the initials and exact first name matches in alphabetical order: if you click the First Name column header, results will be sorted so that the order is reversed and initials and first names top the list, with the blanks coming at the end of the list. 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The records are arranged by Port of Arrival (See Part 5). Research guide G1: Passengers: Sources for enquiries. 1954 Trans Pacific route started - Sydney - Auckland - Suva - Honolulu - Victoria BC - . Its sister ships were Orama (II), Orford, Oronsay, and Otranto (II). 1879-1886 Orient Line Australia service. The records can be searched by name of alien, date and port of arrival and country/place of origin. Search and download certificates of alien arrivals (HO 2) and returns and papers (HO 3) on ancestry.co.uk (). Firstly, the simple calculation ignores the date of voyage within the year: for instance, a passenger who was aged 21 and who travelled on 1st January 1911 is more likely to have been born in 1889, while a passenger of the same age who travelled on 31st December 1911 is much more likely to have been born in 1890, yet both will displayed in your results with the calculated year of birth of 1890. The majority of inward passenger lists from 1878 to 1960 and outward passenger lists from 1890 to 1960 have survived (see below). 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There is no single, standard format. Dimensions: Overall: 190 126 mm. Its sister ships were Orama (II), Orford, Oronsay, and Otranto (II). 1877 London - Plymouth - via the Cape (no call) - Melbourne - Sydney - Adelaide - Suez The default setting is All, which allows you to search all ports at the same time. Great Savings & Free Delivery / Collection on many items Our collection contains records of passengers arriving or departing Victoria, mostly as ship passenger lists. Orontes 1838 - Captain Short, Surgeon Henry Gordon Brock Westminster 1838 - Captain Molison, Surgeon James Lawrence * Duncan 1838 - Captain Wardle, Surgeon John Dobie Magistrate 1838 - Captain Allen, Surgeon Arthur Savage Lady Kennaway 1838 - Captain P.R. document.write("TheShipsList"); The ship was built in 1929 by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, England.. Its sister ships were Orama (II), Orford, Oronsay, and Otranto (II). The lists of the outgoing and incoming passengers are in the U.S., Army Transport Service, Passenger Lists, 1910-1939. Cuzco. For these two reasons, we use a default +/- 2 years when you search by year of birth. Sorata. Find out where they were going and where they were coming from, where they called home as well as their age, occupation and whether they were married or single. We also hold records about: Ships arriving at South Australian ports. "assisted" (subsidised) "unassisted" (paying their own way), or. For general research help see: Research guide A2: Principal records for maritime research at the National Maritime Museum. Famous passengers included the England cricket team on the way to the Bodyline tour in 1932. I first started my merchant carrear ,at the age of 15 on the ss Orontes in 1955 . Sold in 1922 to the British World Trade Expeditions Ltd, Glasgow, but re-possessed by her owners later that year. Additionally, this record set contains no incoming voyages to Britain. 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