Orion
Photo courtesy of Danish Maritime Museum, Elsinore
Name | Orion |
Type | Steamer
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GRT | 1,870 tons |
Country | Danish |
Built | 1890
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Builder | Richardson, Duck & Co., Stockton
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Operator | A/S Dampsk. Selsk. Orion (C. P. Jensen), Copenhagen
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History | Built as Girdleness for Farrar, Groves & Co., London. Sold in 1904 to Flindt, Drost & Co., Copenhagen and renamed Flindt. Sold again in 1913 to A/S Dampsk. Selsk. Orion (C. P. Jensen), Copenhagen and became Orion.
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U-boat attacks on Steamer Orion
| Date | U-boat | Loss type | Position | Location | Route | Cargo | Casualties |
1 | 4 Jun 1917 | U 71 (Walter Gude) | Sunk | N of the Shetlands
| 62° 14'N, 1° 02'E
| Kallundborg - Halifax
| in ballast
| 0
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Position of attack on Orion
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