page_title: SS King Orry (1946)
section_title: Service life
hierarchical_section_title: SS King Orry (1946) / Service life
caption_attribution_description: English: Officers, Deck Crew and catering staff pictured on board King Orry.
context_page_description: TSS King Orry (IV) - the fourth vessel in the line's history to be so named - was the lead ship of the King Orry Class of passenger ferries and packet ships. More commonly referred to as the six sisters, they were built for the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company between 1946 & 1955 primarily to replace war-time losses. The company's previous King Orry was one of three company losses during Operation Dynamo - the evacuation of British and French troops from the port of Dunkirk during May 1940.
  The name King Orry is a corruption of King Gorree, from the Manx Gaelic Ree Gorree, the Manx name for Godred Crovan a Norse-Gael ruler of Dublin, and King of Mann and the Isles in the second half of the 11th century.
context_section_description: The King Orry-class of six ships were the culmination 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" - Fenella and Tynwald.
  King Orry was the first company vessel to adopt the system of prior booking for private cabins, which was considered to be a splendid innovation. Due to a rationalisation of company routes following problems with the berth at Fleetwood, her younger sister Mona's Queen was disposed of in 1962.
  King Orry was considered a reliable and efficient ship, her most noteworthy episode during her service occurred in 1953, when a great storm sank the Princess Victoria in the North Channel.
  While that tragedy was in progress, King Orry was one of the only ships at sea and although late, reached Douglas safely under the command of Captain Bridson.
  With the introduction into service of the company's third car ferry, Mona's Queen in 1972, time was beginning to catch up with the King Orry.
  King Orry made her final crossing from Douglas on Saturday, 30 August 1975; to the traditional farwell from her sister's ship's whistles, at 15:00hrs.
  On Bank Holiday Monday, 31 August 1975, King Orry carried her last passengers from Llandudno to Liverpool.
caption: King Orry Officers, Deck Crew, Engineering Staff and Catering Staff, circa 1973.
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