SS Orontes was a passenger ship owned by Orient Line. The ship was built in 1929 by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, England. Its sister ships were Orama (II), Orford, Oronsay, and Otranto (II). Orontes was the last of the "Orama" Class and great effort was taken to make the public rooms of Orontes the best of this class. The name had previously belonged to the RMS Orontes, an earlier ship owned by the Orient Line.