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| Name | Orontes (launched as Orion, 1879) | Explanation | |
| Type | Central battery ironclad | ||
| Launched | 23 January 1879 | ||
| Hull | Iron | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | |||
| Displacement | 4870 tons | ||
| Guns | 4 | ||
| Fate | 1913 | ||
| Class | Belleisle | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | Laid down as Turkish Buruc-i-Zaffer. Purchased on stocks. 1909 = Orontes, depot ship. | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 24 June 1882 - 5 May 1883 | Commanded (from commissioning at Chatham until paying off at Malta) by Captain Robert O'Brien Fitzroy, Mediterranean (including 1882 Anglo-Egyptian war ) | ||
| 24 October 1882 - 9 December 1882 | Commanded by Captain Harry Holdsworth Rawson, Mediterranean | ||
| 20 April 1885 - 1888 | Commanded (from commissioning at Malta until paying off at Singapore) by Captain Thomas Harvey Royse, Mediterranean, then (April 1887) China | ||
| 21 March 1888 - 18 June 1889 | Commanded (from commissioning at Singapore) by Captain Henry John Carr, China | ||
| 18 June 1889 - 31 October 1890 | Commanded (until paying off at Malta) by Captain James Andrew Thomas Bruce, China, then (January 1890) Mediterranean | ||
| December 1909 | Renamed Orontes | ||
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