RMS Strathnaver
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- RMS Strathnaver;
- SS Strathnaver
P&O Steam Navigation Co.jpg) RMS Strathnaver in 1937 | |
| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name |
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| Namesake | Strathnaver in Sutherland, Scotland |
| Owner | P&O Steam Navigation Co[1] |
| Operator | P&O Steam Navigation Co |
| Port of registry |  London[1] |
| Route | Tilbury — Brisbane[2] |
| Ordered | January 1930 |
| Builder | Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow[1] |
| Yard number | 663[3] |
| Launched | 5 February 1931[4] |
| Christened | 5 February 1931 by Lady Janet Bailey |
| Completed | September 1931[1] |
| Maiden voyage | 2 October 1931[4] |
| Homeport | Tilbury |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped in Hong Kong, 1962[4] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | "Strath" class ocean liner |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 638.7 feet (194.7 m)[1] |
| Beam | 80.2 feet (24.4 m)[1] |
| Draught | 29 feet 2 inches (8.9 m)[1] |
| Depth | 33.1 feet (10.1 m)[1] |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | |
| Speed | |
| Capacity | |
| Sensors & processing systems |
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| Notes | sister ship: RMS Strathaird[1] |
RMS Strathnaver, later SS Strathnaver, was an ocean liner of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O).
She was the first of five sister ships in what came to be called the "Strath" class. All previous P&O steamships had black-painted hulls and funnels but Strathnaver and her sisters were painted with white hulls and buff funnels,[6][7] which earned them the nickname "The Beautiful White Sisters"[2] or just "The White Sisters". Strathnaver and her sister ships RMS Strathaird and RMS Strathmore were Royal Mail Ships that worked P&O's regular liner route between Tilbury in Essex, England and Brisbane in Queensland, Australia.[2]
Strathnaver remained in service for just over 30 years, being scrapped in 1962.
The Vickers-Armstrong shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness built all five "Strath"-class liners.[1] Strathnaver was launched on 5 February 1931,[4] completed in September 1931[1] and left Tilbury on her maiden voyage on 2 October.[4]
In 1929 P&O had introduced its first large turbo-electric liner, RMS Viceroy of India. The company chose the same propulsion system for Strathnaver and Strathaird, but the "Straths" were slightly larger ships, their turbo-electric equipment was much more powerful[1] and they were about 3 knots (5.6 km/h) faster than Viceroy of India.
Strathnaver and Strathaird were very similar. Each had four water-tube boilers and two auxiliary boilers.[1] The boilers had a combined heating surface of 56,000 square feet (5,203 m2) and supplied steam at 425 lbf/in2 to two turbo generators.[1] These supplied current to two electric motors with a combined rating of 6,315 NHP[1] or 28,000 shp.[4] British Thomson-Houston of Rugby, Warwickshire built the turbo-generators and motors.[1] The motors drove a pair of inward-rotating[4] screw propellers.[1] Strathnaver and Strathaird had three funnels but only the middle one served as a smoke stack: the first and third funnels were dummies.[2]
Strathnaver and Strathaird were each equipped with direction finding equipment, an echo sounding device and a gyrocompass[1] As built, Strathnaver had accommodation for 498 first class and 668 tourist class passengers and 476 crew.[8] 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.[9] The tourist-class cabins were either two or four-berthed.[9]
The ship was launched at Barrow on 5 February 1931 by Lady Janet Bailey, daughter of Lord Inchcape, the Chairman of P&O.[8]
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