Launch of RMS Strathmore, 1935
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | RMS Strathmore |
Namesake | Strathmore, Angus, in Scotland |
Owner | P&O Steam Navigation Co to 1963, then John S. Latsis |
Operator | P&O Steam Navigation Co to 1963, then Latsis Lines |
Port of registry | London[1] |
Builder | Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness[1] |
Yard number | 698 |
Launched | 4 April 1935 by the Duchess of York[2] |
Maiden voyage | 18 September 1935 |
In service | 26 October 1935 |
Homeport | Tilbury |
Identification |
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Fate | Scrapped at La Spezia, 1969[3] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | "Strath" class ocean liner |
Tonnage | |
Length | 640.3 feet (195.2 m)[1] |
Beam | 82.2 feet (25.1 m)[1] |
Installed power | 4,912 NHP[1] |
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RMS Strathmore was an ocean liner and Royal Mail Ship of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O), the third of five sister ships built for P&O in the "Strath" class. Launched in 1935, she served on the company's route from London to India until 1940, when she was requisitioned for war service as a troop ship, and redesignated as SS Strathmore, until being returned to her owners in 1948. After a long re-fit, she resumed service with P&O from 1949 until 1963, when she was sold to Latsis Lines and renamed Marianna Latsi, then Henrietta Latsi, before being laid up in 1967 and finally scrapped in 1969.