SS Oropesa was a British steam turbine ocean liner of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. She was built on Merseyside in 1920 and operated between Liverpool and South America. In 1941 the German sub
Oropesa
The destroyer HMS Westcott, which with two Royal Navy tugs rescued 143 survivors
Edward VIII, later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.
SS Oropesa (1919)
…and takes less bunker space. In 1927 the company transferred her to the route between Liverpool and Valparaíso in Chile. In January 1931 Oropesa took Edward, Prince of Wales and his brother Prince George to South America. She was then laid up at Dartmouth, Devon from October 1931 until 1937. In September 1939 Oropesa was…