by Peter Munro Our love affair with P & O's Strathnaver began in February 1931 when she was christened with a magnum of Australia's finest burgundy.[i] Later that year, and with a population of just over one million, Melbourne shrugged off the Wall Street panic, and a world economic depression to welcome this gleaming white, three funnelled, nine deck luxury liner: the largest ship to have ever berthed at the Port of Melbourne. Her long association with these waters, bringing many “New Australians” here in the post-war period, lasted…