Vintage Cruise Ship Menu P&O Stratheden June 1938 Peninsular Oriental Line Lunch

Description

Vintage Cruise Ship Menu
P&O Line (which stands for Peninsular & Oriental)
The line was founded in 1837 making it the oldest cruise line in the world
Currently owned by Carnival Cruise Lines
Ship - SS Stratheden
Luncheon Menu
Wednesday June 15, 1938
Cover image: Columbus' Santa Maria, illustration by Cecil King with the text of P.&O. Menu
Back cover image: The Genoese Navigator, Christopher Columbus, made his discovery of America in 1492, landing in the Bahama Islands in October of that year.  His theories concerning an Atlantic route to the Indies having been coldly received in Portugal, he turned to the Spanish Court, where he eventually obtained the support of Queen Isabella.  Columbus sailed from the Spanish port of Palos in August, 1492, in company with two caravels, Pinta and Nina, his flagship being Santa Maria.  He landed at Waiting Island, in the Bahamas, subsequently discovering Cuba and Hispaniola, or Haiti.  He returned to Spain in January 1943.
menu includes hot and cold items as well as a highlight of Selected Dinner - Tomato Juice Cocktail, Fresh Trout, Meuniere, Fonds d'artichauts, Farcis; Lamb Cutlets, Soubise; Strawberry Sundae
SS Stratheden was a UK-built steam turbine ocean liner. She spent most of her career with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, including the Second World War when she served for six years as a troop ship.
In 1964 John S Latsis bought Stratheden, renamed her Henrietta Latsi and put her into service as a cruise ship. In 1966 he renamed her Marianna Latsi. She was laid up from 1967 and scrapped in 1969.
Stratheden was the fourth to be built of a set of five sister ships that came to be called the "Strath" class. All previous P&O steamships had black-painted hulls and funnels but the "Strath" class were painted with white hulls and buff funnels, which earned them the nickname "The Beautiful White Sisters" or just "The White Sisters".