No.402 Oronsay launched in 1924

20,001grt for Orient Line by John Brown, Clydebank

Torpedoed by Italian submarine Archimede off West Africa 1942.

She survived an attack at St Nazaire when the Lancastria was lost. My father was aboard when she was bombed off Ireland in Oct 1940. The ship limped back to Scotland under her own power.

Allan Green Collection

St Nazaire 1940 with the Lancastria sinking

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