The "Orama"

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ORAMA 1911
ORAMA was a short lived ship. She was 12,927 gross tons, length 569ft x beam 64.2ft, two funnels, two masts, triple screw, speed 18 knots, accommodation for 240-1st, 210- 2nd and 630-3rd class passengers. Built by John Brown & Co, Clydebank, she was launched for the Orient Line on 28th Jun.1911. On 10th Nov.1911 she started her maiden voyage from London via Suez to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and stayed on this service until 1914 when she was commissioned as an Armed Merchant Cruiser. On 19th Oct.1917 she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U.62 south of Ireland while escorting a convoy.
[Great Passenger Ships of the World by Arnold Kludas, vol.1, ISBN 0-85059-174-0 contains photo]

The Jacob Jones served along the East Coast during the next year and conducted war patrols in the same area for a month after the United States' April 1917 entry into the First World War. In May 1917, Jacob Jones, under the command of Lieutenant Commander David Bagley crossed the Atlantic to begin anti-submarine patrols and convoy escort work out of Queenstown, Ireland. She rescued survivors of several torpedoed ships during the next several months. Arriving Queenstown, May 17, she immediately began patrol and convoy escort duty in waters of the United Kingdom. On July 8 she picked up 44 survivors of the British steamship Valetta, the victim of a German U-boat. Two weeks later, while escorting British steamship Dafila, Jacob Jones sighted a periscope; but the steamship was torpedoed before an attack on the submarine could be launched. Once again a rescue ship, Jacob Jones took on board 25 survivors of the stricken Dapfila. On 19 October she picked up 305 survivors of torpedoed British cruiser Orama.

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Departed: 1913, London, England
Arrived: 11 November 1913, Fremantle, Western Australia.

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