RMS Strathmore
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Launch of RMS Strathmore, 1935
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | RMS Strathmore |
| Namesake: | Strathmore, Angus, in Scotland |
| Owner: |
 P&O Steam Navigation Co to 1963, then John S. Latsis
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| Operator: |
P&O Steam Navigation Co to 1963, then Latsis Lines |
| Port of registry: |
 London
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| Builder: | Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Yard number: | 698 |
| Launched: | 4 April 1935 by the Duchess of York |
| Maiden voyage: | 18 September 1935 |
| In service: | 26 October 1935 |
| Homeport: | Tilbury |
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| Fate: | scrapped at La Spezia, 1969 |
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| Class and type: | "Strath" class ocean liner |
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| Length: | 640.3 feet (195.2 m) |
| Beam: | 82.2 feet (25.1 m) |
| Installed power: | 4,912 NHP |
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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.
Strathmore joined two sister ships of the "Strath" class, RMS Strathaird and RMS Strathnaver, as Royal Mail Ships, working P&O's regular liner route from Tilbury in England, via British India to Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, and in 1937 they were joined by the final ships of the class, Strathallan and Stratheden. All previous P&O steamships had had black-painted hulls and funnels, but Strathmore and her four sister ships were given white-painted hulls and buff-coloured funnels, earning them the nickname of the "White Sisters", or the "Beautiful White Sisters". They were also known as "the Straths".
The Vickers-Armstrong shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness built all five "Strath" class liners. Strathnaver was launched on 5 February 1931, completed in September 1931, and left Tilbury on her maiden voyage on 2 October 1931, with Strathaird following a few months later. Strathmore was launched on 4 April 1935, completed in September, and entered service in October, to remain afloat for more than thirty years.
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