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NEW ORONSAY PLANNED WARTIME ASSOCIATION (10 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 15. The Orient Line announced that the name of the new 31,000-ton sister ship to the Orcades will be the Oronsay. The Oronsay, which will cost more than £3,000,000, will be laid down shortly at Barrow-in-Furness. The Orient Company says there is a strong sentimental reason for coupling the names of the Orcades and Oronsay as submarines sank the previous Orcades and Oronsay within a day of each other in the South Atlantic in 1942.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 16 December 1947, Page 7
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86£3,000,000 LINER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 16 December 1947, Page 7
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