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RMS Strathnaver
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<h2 id="building">Building</h2> <p>The <a href="/facts/Vickers_Shipbuilding_and_Engineering/YmdRzfrI">Vickers-Armstrong shipyard</a> at <a href="/facts/Barrow-in-Furness/ndD6hSvE">Barrow-in-Furness</a> built all five "Strath"-class liners.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> <i>Strathnaver</i> was launched on 5 February 1931,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> completed in September 1931<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> and left Tilbury on her maiden voyage on 2 October.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p><p>In 1929 P&O had introduced its first large <a href="/facts/Turbo-electric_transmission/dEcEz4Md">turbo-electric</a> liner, <a href="/facts/RMS_Viceroy_of_India/DuuVzhS0">RMS <i>Viceroy of India</i></a>. The company chose the same propulsion system for <i>Strathnaver</i> and <i>Strathaird</i>, but the "Straths" were slightly larger ships, their turbo-electric equipment was much more powerful<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> and they were about 3 knots (5.6 km/h) faster than <i>Viceroy of India</i>. </p><p><i>Strathnaver</i> and <i>Strathaird</i> were very similar. Each had four <a href="/facts/Water-tube_boilers/AXewR098">water-tube boilers</a> and two auxiliary boilers.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> The boilers had a combined heating surface of 56,000 square feet (5,203 m2) and supplied steam at 425 <a href="/facts/Pounds_per_square_inch/RMdeTlB0">lbf/in2</a> to two <a href="/facts/Turbo_generator/sm21KuxW">turbo generators</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> These supplied current to two electric motors with a combined rating of 6,315 <a href="/facts/Horsepower/jRMwmIxA">NHP</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> or 28,000 <a href="/facts/Horsepower/jRMwmIxA">shp</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> <a href="/facts/British_Thomson-Houston/rtf6eLqh">British Thomson-Houston</a> of <a href="/facts/Rugby%2c_Warwickshire/bMl5mAcq">Rugby, Warwickshire</a> built the turbo-generators and motors.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> The motors drove a pair of inward-rotating<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> <a href="/facts/Propeller_(marine)/0IN0JKXC">screw propellers</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> <i>Strathnaver</i> and <i>Strathaird</i> had three funnels but only the middle one served as a smoke stack: the first and third funnels were dummies.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> </p><p><i>Strathnaver</i> and <i>Strathaird</i> were each equipped with <a href="/facts/Direction_finding/pAtU7f0I">direction finding</a> equipment, an <a href="/facts/Echo_sounding/El22TcqE">echo sounding</a> device and a <a href="/facts/Gyrocompass/nS0m2Pod">gyrocompass</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a> As built, <i>Strathnaver</i> had accommodation for 498 first class and 668 tourist class passengers and 476 crew.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> In first class the ship had 262 single-berth rooms with the rest double-berthed, a special suite on "D" deck had 12 de luxe cabins each with a private bathroom.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a> The tourist-class cabins were either two or four-berthed.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a> </p><p>The ship was launched at Barrow on 5 February 1931 by Lady Janet Bailey, daughter of <a href="/facts/James_Mackay%2c_1st_Earl_of_Inchcape/KTKPx4qh">Lord Inchcape</a>, the Chairman of P&O.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="service">Service</h2> <p><i>Strathnaver</i> and <i>Strathaird</i> mostly worked the <a href="/facts/Port_of_Tilbury/g20Fr5l2">Tilbury</a>–<a href="/facts/Port_of_Brisbane/5NLH5xqX">Brisbane</a> route<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a> <i>via</i> the <a href="/facts/Suez_Canal/1zYoNryp">Suez Canal</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a> They also undertook occasional cruises.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a> </p><p>In October 1938 the ship was chartered to move 1,200 British troops from India to Palestine.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a> </p><p>In 1939<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27"><sup>27</sup></a> or 1940<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28"><sup>28</sup></a> the two sisters were requisitioned as <a href="/facts/Troopship/qhketrhU">troop ships</a>. <i>Strathnaver</i>'s war service included bringing <a href="/facts/Australian_Army/E4JXC7zP">Australian</a> and <a href="/facts/New_Zealand_Army/qmr4NA34">New Zealand</a> troops to <a href="/facts/Suez/0GflHFFL">Suez</a> and Allied troops to the <a href="/facts/Operation_Shingle/rINQg76C">Anzio landings</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29"><sup>29</sup></a> She remained a troop ship until November 1948, when she was returned to P&O.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30"><sup>30</sup></a> In her nine years of government service she carried 129,000 troops and travelled 352,000 miles.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31"><sup>31</sup></a> </p><p>P&O had <a href="/facts/Harland_and_Wolff/9qtDYQ1c">Harland and Wolff</a> in <a href="/facts/Belfast/GIhSKnIv">Belfast</a> refit her for civilian service. First class was abolished and all accommodation was made tourist class, which slightly increased total passenger capacity from 1,168 to 1,252.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32"><sup>32</sup></a> The dummy first and third funnels were removed,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33"><sup>33</sup></a> which made <i>Strathnaver</i> look more like her later sisters <i>Stratheden</i>, <i>Strathallan</i> and <i>Strathmore</i>. <i>Strathaird</i> had already had her dummy funnels removed in 1947.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34"><sup>34</sup></a> When she returned to service in 1950 she had accommodation for 567 passengers in first-class and 458 in tourist-class.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:35" href="#fn:35"><sup>35</sup></a> </p><p>Originally planned to be retired in mid-1962 the <i>Strathnaver</i> was retired a few months earlier due to an Australian government decision not to reserve any more berths for migrants in the first five-months of 1962.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:36" href="#fn:36"><sup>36</sup></a> P&O sold <i>Strathnaver</i> and <i>Strathaird</i> for scrap to Shun Fung Ironworks of Hong Kong.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:37" href="#fn:37"><sup>37</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:38" href="#fn:38"><sup>38</sup></a> <i>Strathnaver</i> arrived in Hong Kong in April 1962 on her last voyage.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:39" href="#fn:39"><sup>39</sup></a> <a href="/facts/SS_Canberra/kRzVH2t9"><i>Canberra</i></a> replaced both <i>Strathnaver</i> and <i>Strathaird</i> on the Australia route.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:40" href="#fn:40"><sup>40</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Strathnaver (ship, 1931). <ul><li>Harnack, Edwin P (1938) [1903]. <i>All About Ships & Shipping</i> (7th ed.). London: <a href="/facts/Faber_and_Faber/CPvre283">Faber and Faber</a>.</li> <li>Talbot-Booth, E.C. (1942) [1936]. <i>Ships and the Sea</i> (Seventh ed.). London: <a href="/facts/Sampson_Low/C6VGnguJ">Sampson Low</a>, Marston & Co. Ltd.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Talbot-Booth 1942, p. 534. - Talbot-Booth, E.C. (1942) [1936]. Ships and the Sea (Seventh ed.). London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Harnack 1938, p. 559. - Harnack, Edwin P (1938) [1903]. All About Ships & Shipping (7th ed.). London: Faber and Faber. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Talbot-Booth 1942, p. 397 - Talbot-Booth, E.C. (1942) [1936]. Ships and the Sea (Seventh ed.). London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Talbot-Booth 1942, p. 397 - Talbot-Booth, E.C. (1942) [1936]. Ships and the Sea (Seventh ed.). London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Lloyd's Register of Shipping (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1937. Retrieved 30 April 2013. <a href="https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/shipdata/pdfs/37/37b0833.pdf" target="_blank">https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/shipdata/pdfs/37/37b0833.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"R.M.S. Strathnaver in Simon's Town". Simon's Town Archives. Retrieved 30 April 2013. <a href="http://www.simonstown.com/archives/stdc_aa_02-011.htm" target="_blank">http://www.simonstown.com/archives/stdc_aa_02-011.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Lloyd's Register of Shipping (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1937. Retrieved 30 April 2013. <a href="https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/shipdata/pdfs/37/37b0833.pdf" target="_blank">https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/shipdata/pdfs/37/37b0833.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"R.M.S. Strathnaver in Simon's Town". Simon's Town Archives. Retrieved 30 April 2013. <a href="http://www.simonstown.com/archives/stdc_aa_02-011.htm" target="_blank">http://www.simonstown.com/archives/stdc_aa_02-011.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Lloyd's Register of Shipping (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1937. Retrieved 30 April 2013. <a href="https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/shipdata/pdfs/37/37b0833.pdf" target="_blank">https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/shipdata/pdfs/37/37b0833.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Lloyd's Register of Shipping (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1937. 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