SS Strathaird left Tilbury Dock UK September 3rd 1957 arrived Adelaide October 5th 1957

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font-size: 12pt">SS Strathaird</span></strong></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="111" valign="top"><p align="left"><font color="#0000A0"><span style="font-family: Arial, Comic Sans MS, Verdana; font-size: 9pt">  <strong>SS Strathaird was built by Vickers-Armstrong Ltd, in Barrow-in-Furness, England. She was launched by Lady Shaw on July 18th 1931 and completed in February 1932, leaving London bound for Sydney, Australia on February 12th 1932. Strathaird's twin propellers were powered by turbo electric steam turbine motors, which although very efficient were not as economical to operate as  first hoped. With a length of 666 ft, 80 ft beam and draught of 29 ft, SS Strathaird weighed 22,568 tons gross and cruised at 20 knots, carried a crew of 480 and in later years carried 1242 one class passengers. She saw service during WW 2 as a troop ship, after which during her refit, the forward and aft funnels were removed. On returning to service with P & O in January 1948, Strathaird set sail for Australia once more. Her typical ports of call were as I recall in September 1957 were Port Said, Aden, Bombay, Colombo, Freemantle, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. Strathaird commenced her final voyage from London on March 28th 1961 and left Adelaide for the last time on May 15th 1961, the Adelaide evening News on that date showed Strathaird flying her huge paying out pennant in a half page photograph. Sadly, one month later she left London for the last time, bound for the breakers in Hong Kong being the first of the famous "Straths" to be broken up. Her sister ships were SS Strathnaver, SS Strathmore, SS Stratheden and SS Strathallan which still lies on the bed of the Mediterranean 12 miles from Oran off the coast of North Africa, having been struck by two German torpedoes during WW 2.</strong></span></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="33" align="right" width="150" valign="top"><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Comic Sans MS, Verdana; font-size: 9pt"><img src="http://www.rivercityfm.com.au/cgi-sys/Count.cgi?df=ozhoo3.dat|display=Counter|ft=6|md=6|frgb=100;139;216|dd=D?df=ozhoo1.dat" width="1" height="1"></span></strong></td> </tr> </table> </center></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <div align="center"><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="100%"><div align="center"><center><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="19%"><font color="#FFFFFF"><a href="#Phone" target="bottom1"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS, BinnerD, Arial"><strong><img src="../images/ozhoo.gif" border="0" hspace vspace WIDTH="120" HEIGHT="27"></strong></span></a><big><span style="font-family: Arial; 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