Steam Ship Model - RMS Osterley, Orient Line, 1909

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A Maker of Item Modelled Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Summary:: RMS Osterley was a quadruple-expansion steam engine passenger vessel built by the London & Glasgow Shipbuilding Co. in 1909. It was operated by the Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd on the United Kingdom to Australia service. This ship made 59 return voyages and was broken up in 1930. During the First World War the Osterley was used as a troopship by the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) as HMAT Osterley.
Acquisition Information:: Donation from Orient Steam Navigation Co (Orient Line)

Discipline:	Technology
Dimensions:	1170 mm (Height), 390 mm (Width), 3500 mm (Length)
Dimension Comment:	APPROXIMATE DIMENSIONS

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Tagged with:	modelmaking, scale models, ship models, steamships, wars conflicts, ash, -1, world war i 1914-1918
Themes this item is part of:	Engineering Collection, Transport Collection
Primary Classification:	WATER TRANSPORT
Secondary Classification:	Steam Power
Tertiary Classification:	model screw steamers - passenger
Maker of Item Modelled:	London & Glasgow Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Great Britain, 1909
User of Item Modelled:	Orient Steam Navigation Co (Orient Line), England, Great Britain, 1909-1930

Comments

Steve Bannister Posted on 29 Jan 2010 12:27 PM

Steam Ship Model - RMS Osterley, Reg, No: ST 026372

I was wondering if you could send me a picture of this ship as I can't find a picture on your website. I researching my family tree, I have found that my Great-Grandfather not only helped to build this ship, but also sailed on it. He was a shipwright in Glasgow and was then offered a position in Burma, where he relocated for a while with his family. The journey back to Glasgow was via Brisbane, which is how I found him on a passenger list.

As I now live in Prth, WA, I am unable to visit your museum so I thought I would ask if there was any way you could send me a picture of this ship along with as much information as you have on it.

Thank you very much for your help,

Yours sincerely,

Steve Bannister

Discovery Centre Posted on 30 Jan 2010 11:48 AM

Hello Steve - we have referred your request to the relevant curator, and will be in touch when more information is available.

Discovery Centre Posted on 01 Feb 2010 11:11 AM

Hi Steve, unfortunately the museum doesn't have any images of the Osterley in it's collection. We suggest that you try the Picture Australia website at http://pictureaustralia.org. Several institutions have images of the ship there and you can order them directly through the website. It's a good idea to do searches under 'RMS Osterley' 'SS Osterley' and simply 'Osterley' so that you come up with as many examples as possible. Good luck!

L. Short Posted on 12 Aug 2010 5:29 PM

Hi Steve I have an old photo of the RMS Osterley. If you haven't obtained a copy let me know and I can scan and send you a copy. I would appreciate some information on it as well. My grandfather travelled from NZ to Uk on it prob about 1917??

J.G Posted on 11 Nov 2010 2:45 AM

L. Short, my relative travelled one the Osterley in WW1. I would like to see a photo of it, if you are offering

DerekFB Posted on 14 Jan 2011 7:49 AM

If anyone is still looking for a photo I have a copy of an Orient Lines book for passengers from my aunt who sailed to Freemantle from England in 1924 - it contains a couple of pictures of the boat including one in wartime camouflage.

Warwick Horner Posted on 04 Apr 2011 3:14 PM

My grandparents came on the Osterley. L.Short can you send me a picture. My grandparents (coalminer family) came from Durham, and my son Joshua played the adult Billy Elliot in the stage show in Sydney, Melbourne and New York.

Andrea Falk Posted on 23 May 2011 11:06 PM

A relation of mine was also on the Osterley in 1923 according to the shipping records.

Philip Marsh Posted on 06 Jan 2012 11:39 PM

There is a picture of the Osterley here: http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=8149
My grandfather was engineer on the ship in 1921.

Norm S Posted on 14 Feb 2012 11:06 PM

A photograph is here:
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1448328
My father embarked on her in Australia foe the first world war in this ship on May 8 1918.

Alan H Posted on 24 Apr 2012 7:15 PM

My grandfather went to the first world war in Europe on the Osterley. He left Melbourne on 14.2.1917 and arrived in Plymoth on 11.4.1917. He served on the battlefield in France, was wounded in action and sent back to England to mend and recover.

Robert C Posted on 10 Feb 2013 11:37 PM

Norm S, my grandfather was also on the same ship 8th may 1918. Coincidence!

Dave G Posted on 04 Mar 2013 5:39 AM

Alan H, my great uncle was on the same sailing as your grandfather. He embarked in Sydney on 10.2.17. He died in Belgium in October 1914.

Dianne C. Posted on 15 Apr 2013 10:33 PM

My Grandmother Hilda Elliott and my mother aged 12 at the time sailed to Perth from Tilbury in May of 1925.

Anne K Posted on 08 May 2013 5:39 PM

My Grandmother and Father returned to Fremantle on Orient Line SS Osterley May 1924. Dad was 9years old and had the scars on two fingers from an encounter with a deck chair until he died Feb 2011.