DUTCH LINER ORANJE
MAGNIFICENT NEW SHIP [United Press Association] WELLINGTON, This Day. 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 triple-screw ship completed at the end of 1939 for the Netherlands Steamship Company, is tli»* 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.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 February 1941, Page 9
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148DUTCH LINER ORANJE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 February 1941, Page 9
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