This sailor built model has, artistic wooden sails, and is well detailed throughout, with a painted sky background and a stylized sea.
Orient Lines SS Orient. Orient was built at John Elder/Fairfield as yard 224. When launched in 1879 at 5386 GT and 460 ft long Orient was the 2nd largest and 4th longest liner built(except the Great Eastern). Only Inmans City of Berlin was bigger with White Stars Britannic and Germanic also being longer. Orient was larger than Guions new Arizona which was built at Elder at the same time as yard 222. While all the ships above were built for the transatlantic run Orient was built to sail to Australia.
Orient was the first new ship built for it’s namesake the new Orient Line which was founded in 1878 to run a joint service with Pacific Steam between London, Melbourne and Sydney. Originally this service was run around the southern tip of Africa but from 1883 went through the Suez Canal.
Orient had a speed of around 15 knots. Her engines were the same size as NDL’s Elbe the first of NDLs Rivers class which were built at Elder/Fairfield during the 1880s.
From 1899 to 1902 Orient served as a transport during the Boer War. After the war Orient resumed Orient service until 1910 when she was scrapped 31 years after launch.
Cataloge: SKU: 0004036