RMS Orinoco
British ocean liner / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
RMS Orinoco was a British Royal Mail Ship that was built in Scotland in 1886 and scrapped, also in Scotland, in 1909. She spent her entire career with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP), mainly trading between England and the Caribbean.
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Name | Orinoco |
Namesake | Orinoco |
Owner | Royal Mail Steam Packet Co |
Port of registry | London |
Route | Southampton ā Caribbean |
Builder | Caird & Company, Greenock |
Yard number | 244 |
Launched | 13 September 1886 |
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Fate | Scrapped 1909 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ocean liner |
Tonnage | 4,478 GRT, 2,393 NRT |
Length | 409.7 ft (124.9 m) |
Beam | 45.0 ft (13.7 m) |
Depth | 33.4 ft (10.2 m) |
Decks | 3 |
Installed power | 870 NHP, 5,800 ihp |
Propulsion | triple expansion engine |
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Speed | 14+1ā2 knots (26.9 km/h) |
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Orinoco was the first RMSP ship to have a steel hull, and the first to be propelled by a triple expansion engine. She was the last square rigger to be built for RMSP. After Orinoco, RMSP continued to order new ships equipped with both sail and steam propulsion, but they were all schooners. She was also the last passenger ship to be built for RMSP with a largely flush deck, and little superstructure except for her bridge and some small deckhouses.
Orinoco had no sister ships. However, her design heavily influenced RMSP's next four large liners: Atrato (1888), Magdalena (1889), Thames (1889) and Clyde (1890).