SS Otway

SS Otway
History
Name:	SS Otway
Owner:	Orient Steam Navigation Company
Builder:	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Glasgow, Scotland
Launched:	1909
Fate:	Torpedoed and sunk off the Hebrides on 23 July 1917
General characteristics
Tonnage:	12,077 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	522 ft (159 m)
Beam:	63 ft (19 m)
Propulsion:	Steam quadruple-expansion engines, twin screws
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Capacity:	1,095 passengers (280 first class, 115 second class, 700 3rd class)

SS Otway was a British ocean liner owned by the Orient Line, built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Glasgow, Scotland and launched in 1909.

She had five sister ships; Orsova, Osterley, Otranto, Orvieto, and the Orama. These ships allowed the Orient Line a prized attraction to the traveling public: fixed sailings every other week to Australia and New Zealand. Requisitioned by the Royal Navy and deployed as an armed merchant cruiser, Otway was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat SM UC-49 off the Hebrides on 23 July 1917 during World War I, with the loss of 10 lives. Coordinates: 58°54′N 6°28′W / 58.900°N 6.467°W