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- ↑ "Screw Steamer ORONSAY built by Charles Connell & Company in 1887 for Wm Guthrie Gardiner & Co, Glasgow, Cargo". The Caledonian Maritime Research Trust, Clyde Built Ships. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ↑ "Screw Steamer ORONSAY built by Charles Connell & Company in 1900 for Western Steamship Company Ltd, (J. Gardiner & Company, managers) Glasgow, Cargo". The Caledonian Maritime Research Trust, Clyde Built Ships. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
