SS Stratheden
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SS Stratheden was a UK-built steam turbine ocean liner. She spent most of her career with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, including the Second World War when she served for six years as a troop ship.
A tug turning Stratheden in the Brisbane River | |
History | |
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Namesake | River Eden (1937–64) |
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Port of registry | |
Route | Tilbury – Bombay – Colombo – Australia (1937–40) |
Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow |
Yard number | 722 |
Launched | 10 June 1937 |
Completed | December 1937 |
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Fate | Scrapped 1969 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | |
Length | 639.5 ft (194.9 m) |
Beam | 82.2 ft (25.1 m) |
Draught | 30 ft 2 in (9.19 m) |
Depth | 33.6 ft (10.2 m) |
Installed power | 4,912 NHP |
Speed | 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
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Notes | sister ships: Strathmore, Strathallan |
In 1964 John S Latsis bought Stratheden, renamed her Henrietta Latsi and put her into service as a cruise ship. In 1966 he renamed her Marianna Latsi. She was laid up from 1967 and scrapped in 1969.
Stratheden was the fourth to be built of a set of five sister ships that came to be called the "Strath" class. All previous P&O steamships had black-painted hulls and funnels but the "Strath" class were painted with white hulls and buff funnels,[1][2] which earned them the nickname "The Beautiful White Sisters"[3] or just "The White Sisters".