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- Oranje
- Angelina Lauro
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- This page shows postcards
and photographs of the SM
Nederland liner
Oranje, later Angelina Lauro. Oranje was completed in 1939, and left
on her maiden voyage to Batavia on September 4th, after a cruise
from Amsterdam-Madeira. She remained in Sourabaya following the
outbreak of WW2, later transferring to Australia where she was
converted to a hospital ship for the Royal Australian Navy, though
remaining under the Dutch flag. Oranje re-entered Amsterdam-Batavia service in 1946.
In 1950 she began a Round-the-World service via Panama, New Zealand,
Australia, Singapore and Suez. In 1964 she was sold to Achille Lauro, who renamed her Angelina Lauro. As with fellow Dutch liner Willem Ruys/Achille
Lauro, conversion
was seriously delayed by a fire. Angelina Lauro finally
re-entered service from Europe to Australia and New Zealand in
1966. In 1972 she became a full time cruise ship. In 1978 Angelina Lauro was chartered to Costa. She was destroyed by a galley
fire during a Caribbean cruise in March 1979. Whilst being towed
to Kaohsiung for scrapping, Angelina Lauro began taking on water and then sank in mid-Pacific
on September 21st 1979.
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- Ship Names on this Page:-
- Oranje - Nederland Line 1939-64
- Angelina
Lauro
- Lauro Line 1964-79
- Angelina
Lauro
- Costa Line charter 1978-79
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- Oranje
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Line: 1939-1964)
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- Oranje was completed in 1939, and left
on her maiden voyage to Batavia on September 4th, after a cruise
from Amsterdam-Madeira. She remained in Sourabaya following the
outbreak of WW2, later transferring to Australia where she was
converted to a hospital ship for the Royal Australian Navy, though
remaining under the Dutch flag. Oranje re-entered Amsterdam-Batavia
service in 1946. In 1950 she began a Round-the-World service
via Panama, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Suez. In 1964
she was sold to Achille
Lauro, who renamed
her Angelina Lauro.
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- Modern
card showing a 1939 poster of Oranje by Jean Walther.
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by the Rotterdam Maritime Museum.
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- Art
postcard of Oranje as
a hospital ship.
- Scan:
Bruce Winslade
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- Monochrome
official Nederland card of Oranje (200016 grt).
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- Colour
official Nederland card of Oranje (200016 grt), after the major 1959 refit.
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- Colour
official Nederland art card of Oranje (200016 grt).
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- Postcard
of Oranje.
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- Modern
tinted card of Oranje ,
published by Rotterdam Maritime Museum.
- A variation
on the card shown above.
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- Sweetman
photographic card of Oranje.
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- Photographic
postcard of Oranje.
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- Rembrandt,
Amsterdam, photographic card of Oranje, after the 1959
refit.
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- Photographic
postcard of Oranje at Southampton, with tender Calshot.
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- Photographic
postcard of Oranje.
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- Angelina Lauro
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1964-79)
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- Oranje was sold to Achille Lauro in 1964,
and renamed Angelina Lauro. She was used on services to
Australia and New Zealand from Europe. In 1972 she became a full
time cruise ship.
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- Official
Lauro postcard of Angelina Lauro
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- Official
Lauro postcard of Angelina Lauro
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- A Ramsey
Postcards
of Angelina Lauro.
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- Angelina Lauro
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Line charter: 1978-79)
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- In 1978 Angelina
Lauro was chartered to Costa, but was destroyed by fire the
following year.
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- Costa
company postcard of Angelina Lauro.
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supplied by Dimas Almada
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- Costa
company postcard of Angelina Lauro.
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supplied by Dimas Almada
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