King Orry

Proposed mid nineteenth-century monument in honour of King Orry.

King Orry may refer to:

People

  • Godred Crovan (died 1095), eleventh-century Norse-Gaelic ruler of Dublin and the Isles

Ships

Several ships operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company:

  • PS King Orry (1842), a wooden paddle steamer built in Douglas 1842; sold to Robert Napier & Co. of Glasgow; disposed of in 1858
  • PS King Orry (1871), an iron paddle steamer; broken up at Llanerchymor, Wales, in 1912
  • SS King Orry (1913), a packet steamer that served until she was sunk during the Evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940
  • SS King Orry (1946), the lead ship of the King Orry class of passenger ferries and packet ships, more commonly referred to as the six sisters
  • King Orry (1972), a roll on-roll off car and passenger ferry, launched in 1972 as Saint Eloi

See also

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