RMS Orontes, WW II from George Clapshew with various signatures on the front. The SS Orontes was a passenger ship owned by Orient Line. The ship was built in 1929 by Vickers Armstrong Ltd. at Barrow-in-Furness, England. Its sister ships were Orama (II), Orford, Oronsay, and Otranto (II). Orontes the last of the "Orama" Class and great effort was taken to make the public rooms of Orontes the best of this class. During World War II, the Orontes became a troopship, serving that role from 1940 to 1947. At the end of WW II the Orontes was used to return Prisoners of War from Australian camps back to Europe. One such voyage departed Station Pier in January 1946. The ship was refitted as a single class passenger ship at Thorneycroft from 1947 to 1948 . It served on the England to Australia route from 1948 to 1962.[citation needed] In March 1958, Orontes was involved in a collision with SS Empire Baltic in the River Thames.[3] The Orontes was scrapped at Valencia, Spain in 1962.