The ill-fated liner passes onlookers off Gourock, Scotland. This film is by the same photographer as our Queen Mary film but taken a year later.
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| The Orient liner Strathallan approaches the camera. |  |
A distinctive ladder and platform is visible to the right... what can it be? Can you identify the location? |
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| Shipyard workers or crew line the prow. Her hull rides high in the water. |  |
| The ship's name is clearly visible. |  |
| Her clean lines and elegant white hull are evident in this close-up. |  |
| As the immense hull passes by a crowd of people wave from a jetty. A small boat passes alongside. |  |
| The camera pans past the crowd to reveal another onlooker and a strange tank-like object is visible sitting atop a frame in the water. Any suggestions... (discussion page)? |  |
| The distinctive stern passes. The decks a clutter of lifeboats, ventilators, derricks and wires. |  |
| A painting rig still attached to the side. |  |
| She steams away... four years later she lies at the bottom, torpedoed. |  |
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