"Point de Galle, Ceylon" Size:medium LOMBARDY (1873) in dock

LOMBARDY (1873) in dock

RANGITATA (1929) was built by John Brown & Co Ltd

P&O steamers would arrive here late at night and passengers and baggage would be met by camels

She was built for the Belfast Steamship Company Ltd and entered the P&O fleet with the acquisition of Coast Lines

also in the P&O Heritage Collection

"Point de Galle, Ceylon" Size:medium LOMBARDY (1873) in dock"A more beautiful and picturesque scene cannot be offered to the eye of the traveller wearied with the continued expanse of azure and ultramarine". At Point de Galle P&O established another agency and coal depots for onward journeys. Re fuelling meant passengers had time enough to explore the cinnamon gardens of the interior.