TSS Strathaird was a Passenger vessel of 22547 tons launched in 1932 at Barrow.

*** Strathaird carried the 1948 Australian cricket team, nicknamed "The Invincibles", to England.

In September–October 1960, Strathaird carried members of the West Indies cricket team, who had been playing league cricket in England, from Tilbury to Fremantle and took them back in February–March 1961.

Olivia Newton-John was a passenger, when as a young girl aged 5, she traveled to Australia from England with her family.

Egon Kisch, an infamous character In November 1934, the Czechoslovak Communist caused a major headache for the AU government

She was opulently fitted-out and carried 1168 passengers.

She was the second of five sister ships in what came to be called the "Strath" class.

All previous P&O steamships had black-painted hulls and funnels but Strathaird and her sisters were painted with white hulls and buff funnels, which earned them the nickname "The Beautiful White Sisters" or just "The White Sisters".

Strathaird and her sister ship RMS Strathnaver were Royal Mail Ships that worked P&O's regular liner route between Tilbury in Essex, England and Brisbane in Queensland, Australia.

In 1935, they were joined by the third ship of the class, RMS Strathmore.

Strathaird made two convoy voyages taking troops from Australasia to the Middle East Theatre of the Second World War and then went to Liverpool for a refit. This was interrupted in June 1940 when Strathaird was ordered to take part in Operation Aerial to evacuate British and Allied personnel from western France. Strathaird evacuated 6,000 civilians and troops from the port of Brest

Scrapped in Hong Kong in 1962.

The souvenir knife would have been purchased on board the vessel