DUTCH LINER ORANJE
Magnificent New Ship
Special interest attaches to the cabled announcement that the Royal Dutch Mail Line motor-ship Oranje has been handed over to the British Government for use as a hospital ship to carry New Zealand and Australian sick and wounded soldiers from the Middle East. . ,
The Oranje. a magnificent triplescrew ship completed at the end of 1939 for the Netherlands Steamship Company, is the fastest motor-liner in the world. She was designed for a service speed of 21 knots, but. on her trials she attained 26.3 knots.
The Oranje measures 656 feet in length by 83 feet 6 inches in breadth, her gross register being 20,017 tons. She has accommodation for 740 passengers'and a crew of 390. The vessel made her maiden passage out from Amsterdam to Batavia, where she was laid up owing to the war. (Picture on Page 5)
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 118, 12 February 1941, Page 6
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