TSS King Orry (1946)

TSS King Orry [4] was the lead ship of the King Orry Class a passenger-only ferry and Packet ship built for the Isle of Man Steam Packet to replace war-time losses. ["Island Lifeline" by Connery Chappell. pp58 (1980) T.Stephenson & Sons Ltd ISBN 0901314 20X]

The "King Orry" Class of six ships were the culimnation of war-time experience and pre-war service by Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. Essentially, the class were a modified design of the 1936 "Twins" which included TSS Fenella [2] and TSS Tynwald [4] . The King Orry [4] was launched from the slipway at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, Liverpool in November 1945. The name King Orry is the Manx Gaelic name for the Godred Crovan a Norse-Gael ruler of Dublin, and King of Mann and the Isles in the second half of the 11th century. The previous Isle of Man Steam Packet ship with this name was King Orry (3), one of three company losses during Operation Dynamo the evacuation of British and French troops from the port of Dunkirk during May 1940.

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