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Name: OREL launched using name EAGLE
Type: Passenger Ship
Launched: 26/09/1889
Completed: 24/02/1890
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 281
Dimensions: 4880grt, 2564nrt, 432.0 x 48.0 x 24.1ft
Engines: 2 x T3cyl (34, 54 & 85 x 51ins), 1089nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Propulsion: 2 x Screws; 19.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
24/02/1890 Russian Volunteer Fleet Association, Odessa
1905 Government of Japan; renamed KUSUHO MARU
1905 Toyo Kisen Kaisha, Tokyo
1916 Government of Russia
Broken up
Comments: 26/09/1889: English translation as EAGLE used at the launch
Accommodation for a small number of 1st Class passengers & 1,500 emigrants or troops
Used as a hospital ship in the Russia - Japanese war
27/05/1905: Captured by Japanese cruiser SADO MARU near Tsushima
1916: Japanese court ruled that the capture was a violation of Hague Convention
Not clear whether vessel returned as scrap or another vessel substituted


Above photo as OREL in hospital ship livery is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as KUSUHO MARU is courtesy of Photoship

Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Tuesday, 25/02/1890