RMS Strathnaver, along with her sister Strathaird, was an ocean liner introduced by the P&O line in 1931 – and she caused quite a stir! In this episode, Mike Brady runs through some of the radical features of this magnificent historic ship.
The painting at the start of this video was completed by my good friend and renown maritime artist Elang Erlangga.
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Oceanliner Designs explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of history’s great ocean liners – from Titanic to Queen Mary but not forgetting the likes of Empress of Ireland or Chusan. Join Mike Brady as he uncovers the myths, explains the timelines, logistics and deep dives into the lives of the people and ocean liner ships that we all know and love.
0:00 Introduction
0:52 The old P&O Line
2:14 Rebuilding the fleet
4:32 Strathnaver’s exterior
5:54 Luxurious interiors
6:55 The radical engines
8:05 Changes
9:11 A happy career
Music:
Inventing Flight
Bryan Teoh
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Bach – Aria Variata, BVW 989
Brendan Kinsella
From Page to Practice
Bryan Teoh
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1940s Slow Dance
Doug Maxwell
Autumn Jazz
Zeeky Beats
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My mother and sister came to Australia, Sydney in 1957 on this ship, along with my father returning from Naval Service in UK. The Royal Australian Navy paid for their car to be shipped over as well. They lived in Sydney for a few years and I was born in Camberwell, Victoria. Most UK emigres would have sailed on her.
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P&O seems to have mirrored Canadian Pacific in switching to all white with Buff funnels. CP also had the slogan "Spans the World" with its trans-Canada railroad and Air Service.
Well done once again, thank you.
Excellent presentation with compelling graphics.
A brilliant video. I really enjoy the old newsreels of ships but they don't often seem to have interiors. I suppose most of the footage was of port arrivals/departures. Thank you for the video!
My Step-Parents emigrated to Canada aboard the Aquitania's second-last voyage to the New World… though that has nothing to do with my Western accent 😉
Kudos on an excellent video, old chap – keep up the head of steam!
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Love the image of the group of women standing in front of the bow, such a cool photograph! 🤩
Though I was only a kid at the time I’ve very fond memories of the Strathnaver. My brother and I went to the wharf where she was docked in Brisbane, Australia and managed to get on board to look around. Btw. the only thing Art Deco you have shown is the menus cover, her interior is nothing like Art Deco 😄. Thanks for the upload and the wonderful memories of a vanished era.
I would love to pour through that technical manual
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That’s a nice tie Mike 😉
Great presentations Mike. I worked for MacDonald – Hamilton, the P&O agents in OZ, but when i was a kid, I took hundreds of photos with my Box Brownie. I still have them and I threaten to post them on the Tube as a slideshow one day. When I was 12, MH and the Orient Line gave me an open pass to visit any passenger vessel in port. I visited the all the Strath's except the Strathallen which never came to OZ as far as I can recall. I loved your video, but felt a bit let down when you never mentioned that the Strathmnaver and Strathaird eventually lost those silly false funnels.
Sorry pulled the plug 2 mins in – The music, Not needed
Wouldn't it be nice if we still moved around the world on ships instead of ugly, noisy aeroplanes?
My great aunt loved the "Strath" liners as they took their periodic trips to the "old country" from Australia. We have film of their last journey by liner in 1961/2.
Funny…..Growing up in Strathmore, there was a Strathnaver Avenue near my place….I'm guessing it has something to do with the ship?
That was so very interesting. I’m not a ship person, but my parents loved cruising p and o.
Wow!! Great interesting story! I travelled with my grandparents on the Oslofyord and the Bergenfyord in 1965 to Norway!
My great uncle was an officer in the Indian Army between the Wars and I still have P&O playing cards and am holding postcards of the black-funnelled Mantua, Kaisar-I-Hind, Corfu, Carthage, and the white 'Electric Ship', Strathaird. Somewhere is the postcard for the Rangitata (aka?). I know that the cards often had the same picture yet the name was changed for another of the same class – but these ones are all different.
A contemporary to the Strathnaver, though for a very different route was Furness Bermuda's turbo electric liner Monarch of Bermuda, and her near sister Queen of Bermuda of 1933.
lovely video. Personal link makes it special. Looking forward to more. Lots of you tubes on trains but window of opportunity for ships
Excellent
I travelled from Sydney to Tilbury on the Mooltan for the Coronation in 1953 she was an old ship then but for a 10 year old an adventure. I later worked for P&O head office in Sydney when Oriana Canberra were the super liners of the day. Have sailed many times since on current ships.
My mother and father met on the Strathnaver in 1951. He was Asst. Purser and she was travelling to Oz 1st Class to visit her father, who worked for P&O. I have the menus from the voyage and a set of Purser's keys. They got married in 1956.
That's a piece of your history mate – amazing, I wonder why you are so passionate about ships, its part of you and your family.
This video is great! Something I've always wondered … how long was the journey from England to Australia on these P&O liners?