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SHIP DETAILS Rig Twin-Screw Turbo-Electric, 4,912 nhp Built 1935 Built In Barrow-in-Furness Tonnage 23,580g 13,159n Built By Vickers-Armstrong Ltd. Dimensions 640.3 x 82.2 x 33.7 Demise Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., reg. London. 1935 Oct 4: Maiden voyage was a cruise. 1935 Nov.: Placed on the London - Australia express service. 1939-45: Troopship. 1948-9: Reconditioned. 1949 Oct.27: Resumed the Australian service via Bombay. 1961: Converted to a one-class ship. Bombay omitted. 1963 June 20: Last voyage to Australia. Sold to John S.Latsis, reg. Piraeus & renamed for Karachi - Mecca pilgrimage service. 1969 May 27: Arrived at shipbreakers at La Spezia, Italy to be scrapped. Source: passengers.history.sa.gov.au/node/936709

Strathmore was the third of the five Strath Sisters and after the three-funneled Strathnaver and Strathaird, with their turbo-electric engines, the single-funneled 'sisters' Strathmore, Stratheden, and Strathallan, reverted to the more traditional geared turbines, which had a lower capital cost. Launched on the 4th April 1935, P&O's directors proudly commissioned a lavish brochure to introduce their fine new passenger liner to the public. Source: www.pandosnco.co.uk/strathmore.html The same source also provides a fantastic gallery of photos depicting the interior of the ship.

There's Viktoria Luise again, so . . . pre-war. I'm guessing the photographer of this series of Caribbean pics was on a cruise aboard her.

Her cruise schedule: flic.kr/p/7zqt1q

Typo on the part of the photographer, or was there actually a time it was called Porto Rico rather than Puerto Rico?

"She was nicknamed the "Green Goddess" [1] after her light green hull livery. ..."

More at - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Caronia_(1947)

In Sydney, Australia in 1951
via Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

Monkey went nuts with 'Caronia' photos; 15 at least - catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=caronia+morgan&am...
It looks like the ship is anchored there. And Monkey swung by several times as the white yacht moves around. And something is going on with the lifeboats ...

The Caronia called at Dun Laoghaire in early June according to the Belfast News-letter, though it just mentions that the cruise ship had called at an unspecified "Southen port" and Kingstown, and naturally concentrates on the civic receptions for the tourists in Bangor and Belfast. From Bangor the cruise was to continue to Norway. (Belfast News-Letter - Saturday 05 June 1954)