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RMS Strathaird
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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:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> <i>Strathaird</i> was launched on 18 July 1931,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> completed in January 1932,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> and left Tilbury on her maiden voyage on 12 February 1932.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</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:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> and they were about 3 knots (5.6 km/h) faster than <i>Viceroy of India</i>. </p><p><i>Strathaird</i> was very similar to <i>Strathnaver</i>. Each had four <a href="/facts/Water-tube_boilers/AXewR098">water-tube boilers</a> and two auxiliary boilers.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</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:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</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:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> or 28,000 <a href="/facts/Horsepower/jRMwmIxA">shp</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> <a href="/facts/British_Thomson-Houston/rtf6eLqh">British Thomson-Houston</a> of <a href="/facts/Rugby,_Warwickshire/bMl5mAcq">Rugby, Warwickshire</a> built the turbo-generators and motors.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> The motors drove a pair of inward-rotating<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> <a href="/facts/Propeller_(marine)/0IN0JKXC">screw propellers</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> Like <i>Strathnaver</i>, <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:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a> </p><p><i>Strathaird</i> and <i>Strathnaver</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:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> As built, <i>Strathaird</i> had accommodation for 498 first class and 668 tourist class passengers.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="service">Service</h2> <p><i>Strathaird</i> joined <i>Strathnaver</i> on the <a href="/facts/Port_of_Tilbury/g20Fr5l2">Tilbury</a> — <a href="/facts/Port_of_Brisbane/5NLH5xqX">Brisbane</a> route <i>via</i> the <a href="/facts/Suez_Canal/1zYoNryp">Suez Canal</a>. However, in December 1932, <i>Strathaird</i> became the first P&O ship to work a cruise, when she took a five-day excursion from Sydney to <a href="/facts/Norfolk_Island/p9d64LmL">Norfolk Island</a>. Later in the 1930s, she made occasional cruises from UK ports.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a> </p><p>In 1939<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> or 1940,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a> the two sisters were requisitioned as <a href="/facts/Troopship/qhketrhU">troop ships</a>. <i>Strathaird</i> made two <a href="/facts/Convoy/03yMx0P1">convoy</a> voyages taking troops from Australasia to the <a href="/facts/Mediterranean_and_Middle_East_Theatre/lcA8jpD1">Middle East Theatre</a> of the Second World War and then went to <a href="/facts/Port_of_Liverpool/s7TcUzyy">Liverpool</a> for a refit. This was interrupted in June 1940 when <i>Strathaird</i> was ordered to take part in <a href="/facts/Operation_Aerial/Csn9SRRI">Operation Aerial</a> to evacuate British and Allied personnel from western France. <i>Strathaird</i> evacuated 6,000 civilians and troops from the port of <a href="/facts/Brest,_France/GQyqB8nV">Brest</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a> In 1941, she supported the transfer of the first unit of Foresters from British Honduras (Belize) to Trinidad before transporting 114 Foresters to Greenock, Scotland. She remained a troop ship until the end of 1946 when she was returned to P&O.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a> </p><p>P&O had Vickers-Armstrong refit and overhaul <i>Strathaird</i>, starting in 1947 and completing work in January 1948. Her capacity for first class passengers was increased to 573 and her tourist class accommodation was reduced to 496.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a> This reduced her total passenger capacity from 1,166 to 1,069. Her dummy first and third funnels were removed,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27"><sup>27</sup></a> which made <i>Strathaird</i> look more like her later sisters <i>Stratheden</i>, <i>Strathallan</i> and <i>Strathmore</i>. </p><p>In 1954, P&O had <i>Strathaird</i> refitted again.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28"><sup>28</sup></a> First class was abolished and all accommodation was made tourist class, which increased total passenger capacity from 1,069 to 1,252.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29"><sup>29</sup></a> <i>Strathaird</i> made her first departure from Tilbury in her new form on 8 April 1954.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30"><sup>30</sup></a> </p><p>At the beginning of the 1960s, <i>Strathnaver</i> and <i>Strathaird</i> were almost three decades old and no longer reliable enough for mail and passenger service, so P&O replaced both ships with <a href="/facts/SS_Canberra/kRzVH2t9">SS <i>Canberra</i></a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31"><sup>31</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:32" href="#fn:32"><sup>32</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33"><sup>33</sup></a> <i>Strathaird</i> left Tilbury on 17 June 1961 for Hong Kong, where she became the first of the "Strath" class liners to be scrapped.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34"><sup>34</sup></a> <i>Strathnaver</i> followed her to the breakers in 1962.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:35" href="#fn:35"><sup>35</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="notable-passengers">Notable passengers</h2> <h3>Egon Kisch</h3> <p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/Attempted_exclusion_of_Egon_Kisch_from_Australia/fPFjgYPc">Attempted exclusion of Egon Kisch from Australia</a></p> <p>In November 1934, the <a href="/facts/History_of_Czechoslovakia_(1918%E2%80%931938)/48mLXutL">Czechoslovak</a> Communist writer, journalist and opponent of Nazism <a href="/facts/Egon_Kisch/jAwBADM8">Egon Kisch</a> sailed on <i>Strathaird</i> to Australia to speak at a conference organised by the communist <a href="/facts/Movement_Against_War_and_Fascism/yG1QXUAp">Movement Against War and Fascism</a> to mark the <a href="/facts/1934_Centenary_of_Melbourne/5ddCY6X6">Centenary of Melbourne</a>. When the ship called at <a href="/facts/Fremantle_Harbour/mTkzXNKB">Fremantle Harbour</a> on 6 November, Federal authorities boarded her, told Kisch that he would be excluded from Australia under the <a href="/facts/Immigration_Restriction_Act_1901/MoFdmjJp">Immigration Restriction Act 1901</a>, and placed him in the custody of <i>Strathaird</i>'s <a href="/facts/Sea_captain/e7avxJYM">master</a>, Captain Carter. </p><p>On 12 November, <i>Strathaird</i> reached <a href="/facts/Port_of_Melbourne/yykLNam6">Melbourne</a>, where a barrister for the Communist <a href="/facts/International_Labor_Defense/Yd2VIenl">International Labor Defense</a> organisation boarded her and served Captain Carter with a writ of <i><a href="/facts/Habeas_corpus/2tHT81Hd">habeas corpus</a></i> to allow Kisch ashore to make his case for entry to the country. Australian authorities still did not allow Kisch ashore, so on 13 November, as <i>Strathaird</i> was leaving Melbourne, he leapt from the deck and landed on <a href="/facts/Station_Pier/AbUJwX0n">Station Pier</a>, breaking his right leg. <a href="/facts/Victoria_Police/bSzlWxpT">Victoria Police</a> detained him and put him back aboard, but as <i>Strathaird</i> continued to <a href="/facts/Port_Jackson/uFgAR2ne">Sydney Harbour</a> Kisch's supporters took his case to the <a href="/facts/High_Court_of_Australia/S6StKyu1">High Court of Australia</a>, which ruled his exclusion from the country to be invalid. </p><p>On 16 November, <i>Strathaird</i> reached Sydney Harbour, where Federal authorities tried to use the <a href="/facts/Immigration_Restriction_Act_1901/MoFdmjJp">Immigration Restriction Act dictation test</a> to exclude him. <a href="/facts/New_South_Wales_Police_Force/MSdsCatl">NSW police</a> took Kisch into custody but released him on bail and, after further legal process, he remained in Australia speaking to public meetings until March 1935. </p> <h3>Cricket teams</h3> <p><i>Strathaird</i> carried the <a href="/facts/Australian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1948/d2ucRzyV">1948 Australian cricket team</a>, nicknamed "The Invincibles", to England. </p><p>In September–October 1960, <i>Strathaird</i> carried members of the West Indies cricket team, who had been playing league cricket in England, from <a href="/facts/Tilbury/4jqPxqEM">Tilbury</a> to <a href="/facts/Fremantle/33FXfayE">Fremantle</a> and took them back in February–March 1961. </p> <h3>David Hill</h3> <p>Australian public administrator and businessman <a href="/facts/David_Hill_(businessman)/fYWdKjvB">David Hill</a> migrated to Australia together with two brothers aboard the <i>Strathaird</i> in April 1959. </p> <h3>Olivia Newton-John</h3> <p><a href="/facts/Olivia_Newton-John/n82tA0t5">Olivia Newton-John</a> was a passenger, when as a young girl aged 5, she traveled to Australia from England with her family.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:36" href="#fn:36"><sup>36</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <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="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li> Media related to Strathaird (ship, 1932) at Wikimedia Commons</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 1 May 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>Lloyd's Register of Shipping (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1937. Retrieved 1 May 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:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Goossens, Reuben (2011–2012). "RMS Strathaird". P&O Line. SS Maritime. Retrieved 1 May 2013. <a href="http://www.ssmaritime.com/strathaird.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ssmaritime.com/strathaird.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Lloyd's Register of Shipping (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1937. Retrieved 1 May 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:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Goossens, Reuben (2011–2012). "RMS Strathaird". P&O Line. SS Maritime. Retrieved 1 May 2013. <a href="http://www.ssmaritime.com/strathaird.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ssmaritime.com/strathaird.htm</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. Retrieved 1 May 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:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Lloyd's Register of Shipping (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1937. Retrieved 1 May 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:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Lloyd's Register of Shipping (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1937. Retrieved 1 May 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:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Lloyd's Register of Shipping (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1937. Retrieved 1 May 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:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>"R.M.S. Strathnaver in Simon's Town". Simon's Town Archives. Retrieved 1 May 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:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>Lloyd's Register of Shipping (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1937. Retrieved 1 May 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:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>"R.M.S. Strathnaver in Simon's Town". Simon's Town Archives. Retrieved 1 May 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:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>Lloyd's Register of Shipping (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1937. Retrieved 1 May 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:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:18"><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:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:19"><p>Lloyd's Register of Shipping (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register. 1937. Retrieved 1 May 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:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:20"><p>Goossens, Reuben (2011–2012). "RMS Strathaird". P&O Line. SS Maritime. Retrieved 1 May 2013. <a href="http://www.ssmaritime.com/strathaird.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ssmaritime.com/strathaird.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:20" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:21"><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:21" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:22"><p>Goossens, Reuben (2011–2012). "RMS Strathaird". P&O Line. SS Maritime. Retrieved 1 May 2013. <a href="http://www.ssmaritime.com/strathaird.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ssmaritime.com/strathaird.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:22" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:23"><p>"R.M.S. Strathnaver in Simon's Town". Simon's Town Archives. Retrieved 1 May 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:23" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:24"><p>Goossens, Reuben (2011–2012). "RMS Strathaird". P&O Line. SS Maritime. Retrieved 1 May 2013. <a href="http://www.ssmaritime.com/strathaird.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ssmaritime.com/strathaird.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:24" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:25"><p>Goossens, Reuben (2011–2012). "RMS Strathaird". P&O Line. SS Maritime. Retrieved 1 May 2013. <a href="http://www.ssmaritime.com/strathaird.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ssmaritime.com/strathaird.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:25" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:26"><p>Goossens, Reuben (2011–2012). "RMS Strathaird". P&O Line. SS Maritime. Retrieved 1 May 2013. <a href="http://www.ssmaritime.com/strathaird.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ssmaritime.com/strathaird.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:26" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:27"><p>Goossens, Reuben (2011–2012). "RMS Strathaird". P&O Line. SS Maritime. Retrieved 1 May 2013. <a href="http://www.ssmaritime.com/strathaird.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ssmaritime.com/strathaird.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:27" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:28"><p>Goossens, Reuben (2011–2012). "RMS Strathaird". P&O Line. SS Maritime. 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