SHOW & TELL - P&O SS Strathnaver Detail 1 700pc DSC08531
June 2021
A detail from my jigsaw chosen for the Holiday Destination theme.
A wonderfully cut jigsaw that for me was one of the stars of the house party. The fantastic 700pc jigsaw was produced from a GREIG (?) poster for P&O showing the SS Strathnaver. The imaginative poster design shows a rainbow arch of places the liner might visit, with a top border of colourful regional costumes. I think it could have been suggested by views of the liner in Sydney Harbour, the destination of her 1931 maiden voyage. The setting and views depicted however are clearly Mediterranean, including Pisa, Venice, Constantinople and Athens.
What blows me away is the quality of the cutting - great verve, energy and variety with some numbers/letters.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Strathnaver
RMS Strathnaver, later SS Strathnaver, was an ocean liner of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). She was the first of five sister ships in what came to be called the "Strath" class. (Strathnaver and her sisters had a new livery of white-painted hulls and buff funnels, which gave them the nickname "The White Sisters".) Strathnaver, Strathaird and Strathmore were Royal Mail Ships that worked P&O's regular liner route between Tilbury in Essex, England and Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. Strathnaver remained in service for just over 30 years, being scrapped in 1962.
All five Strath class liners were built at the Vickers-Armstrong shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness. Strathnaver was launched on 5 Feb 1931, completed in September and left Tilbury on her maiden voyage on 2 October, arriving Sydney in November.
Her propulsion system was similar but more powerful than P&O's the first large turbo-electric liner, RMS Viceroy of India (1929). For technical details about the ship see Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Strathnaver
The first and third funnels were dummies and later removed. Strathnaver and Strathaird were equipped with direction finding equipment, an echo sounding device and a gyrocompass. As built, Strathnaver had accommodation for 498 first class and 668 tourist class passengers and 476 crew. In first class the ship had 262 single-berth rooms with the rest double-berthed, a special suite on "D" deck had 12 de luxe cabins each with a private bathroom. The tourist-class cabins were either two or four-berthed.
SHOW & TELL - P&O SS Strathnaver Detail 1 700pc DSC08531
June 2021
A detail from my jigsaw chosen for the Holiday Destination theme.
A wonderfully cut jigsaw that for me was one of the stars of the house party. The fantastic 700pc jigsaw was produced from a GREIG (?) poster for P&O showing the SS Strathnaver. The imaginative poster design shows a rainbow arch of places the liner might visit, with a top border of colourful regional costumes. I think it could have been suggested by views of the liner in Sydney Harbour, the destination of her 1931 maiden voyage. The setting and views depicted however are clearly Mediterranean, including Pisa, Venice, Constantinople and Athens.
What blows me away is the quality of the cutting - great verve, energy and variety with some numbers/letters.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Strathnaver
RMS Strathnaver, later SS Strathnaver, was an ocean liner of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). She was the first of five sister ships in what came to be called the "Strath" class. (Strathnaver and her sisters had a new livery of white-painted hulls and buff funnels, which gave them the nickname "The White Sisters".) Strathnaver, Strathaird and Strathmore were Royal Mail Ships that worked P&O's regular liner route between Tilbury in Essex, England and Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. Strathnaver remained in service for just over 30 years, being scrapped in 1962.
All five Strath class liners were built at the Vickers-Armstrong shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness. Strathnaver was launched on 5 Feb 1931, completed in September and left Tilbury on her maiden voyage on 2 October, arriving Sydney in November.
Her propulsion system was similar but more powerful than P&O's the first large turbo-electric liner, RMS Viceroy of India (1929). For technical details about the ship see Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Strathnaver
The first and third funnels were dummies and later removed. Strathnaver and Strathaird were equipped with direction finding equipment, an echo sounding device and a gyrocompass. As built, Strathnaver had accommodation for 498 first class and 668 tourist class passengers and 476 crew. In first class the ship had 262 single-berth rooms with the rest double-berthed, a special suite on "D" deck had 12 de luxe cabins each with a private bathroom. The tourist-class cabins were either two or four-berthed.