 Otway
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Otway |
| Namesake | Cape Otway |
| Owner | Orient Steam Navigation Company |
| Operator | Orient Steam Navigation Company |
| Port of registry | Glasgow |
| Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding & Eng Co, Glasgow |
| Yard number | 459 |
| Launched | 21 November 1908 |
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| Fate | Sunk 23 July 1917 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ocean liner |
| Tonnage | 12,077 GRT, 6,690 NRT |
| Length | 535.9 ft (163.3 m) |
| Beam | 63.2 ft (19.3 m) |
| Depth | 34.2 ft (10.4 m) |
| Installed power | 2,000 NHP |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Capacity |
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| Notes |
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SS Otway was a UK steam ocean liner owned by the Orient Line, built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Glasgow, Scotland, launched in 1908 and completed in 1909.
She was one of five sister ships, along with Orsova, Osterley, Otranto and Orvieto. They were later joined by RMS Orama, which was slightly larger and had different machinery. With these ships the Orient Line offered the travelling 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 in World War I, with the loss of 10 lives.