HMS Orontes Royal Navy troopship, built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead, commissioned 1863 and sold in 1893. Carried back to England the body of Louis Napoleon, Prince Imperial killed in the Zulu War.


HMS Orontes Royal Navy troopship, built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead, commissioned 1863 and sold in 1893. Carried back to England the body of Louis Napoleon, Prince Imperial killed in the Zulu War.


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