RMS Strathmore

	Launch of RMS Strathmore, 1935
History
United Kingdom
Name	RMS Strathmore
Namesake	Strathmore, Angus, in Scotland
Owner	P&O Steam Navigation Co to 1963, then John S. Latsis
Operator	P&O Steam Navigation Co to 1963, then Latsis Lines
Port of registry	London
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
Identification	UK official number 164521; Call sign GYMS; ;
Fate	Scrapped at La Spezia, 1969
General characteristics
Class and type	"Strath" class ocean liner
Tonnage	23,428 GRT; 13,151 tonnage under deck; 14,112 NRT;
Length	640.3 feet (195.2 m)
Beam	82.2 feet (25.1 m)
Installed power	4,912 NHP
Sensors and ; processing systems	direction finding equipment,; echo sounding device; gyrocompass;

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.

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