HMAS Orara was a coastal passenger and cargo steamship that was built in Scotland in 1907 and sunk by a mine in China in 1950.

She spent most of her career in the fleet of the North Coast Steam Navigation Company (NCSNC) of New South Wales.

In the Second World War she was an auxiliary minesweeper and depot ship in the Royal Australian Navy.

[5] Orara was requisitioned in September 1939 and was commissioned on 9 October into the RAN as an auxiliary minesweeper with the pennant number J130.

[3] On 19 June 1950 Santos was steaming from Shanghai to Qingdao when a mine sank her in the Yangtze River near Wusong, with the loss of a number of lives.