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From: "Debbie Beavis" <>
Subject: RE: [Mar] s/s ORITA
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 22:43:57 +0930
In-Reply-To: <06f201c41c8b$95e4fae0$53e886d9@finch96fpe5ia0>

I show her sailing from Liverpool on 15 December 1927 - my database of
passenger sailings is pretty void for those years so I can't do better
than that, but no way is that September date correct. Captain was E E
Duncan, a regular PSNC captain.

Debbie Beavis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Finch [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 8:02 PM
> To:
> Subject: [Mar] s/s ORITA
>
>
> Hi List,
>
> Both the books I have on P.S.N.Co (Haws and Bonsor) state
> that the ORITA started her last voyage from Liverpool on
> 22.9.1927 and was then laid up until scrapped in 1931.
>
> However I have just been shown a passenger list which shows
> that she definitely left Valparaiso on 20.4.1929. Either the
> 1927 date is wrong, or she was recommissioned in 1929,
> perhaps as a relieving ship?
>
> Can anyone explain this please?
>
> Ted

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