ROYAL TAR in rough seas Frame:natural STRATHEDEN (1937) was the fourth

STRATHEDEN (1937) was the fourth of the five P&O ‘Strath’ liners of the 1930s and essentially a repeat of STRATHMORE but with fewer uprights supporting the promenade deck and a taller funnel

Nicholls sends 6 watercolour drawings of principal ports visited by the Company's steamers from Southampton to Ceylon in return for free passage granted to his wife in August 1846

Two vignettes illustrating the crew 'heaving the log' and 'getting a cast from the sounding machine' in thick weather

An edition of photographic prints of this painting were produced to mark the listing of P&O on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 12th September 1991

IBERIA (1836)

ROYAL TAR in rough seas Frame:natural STRATHEDEN (1937) was the fourthIn 1834 the ROYAL TAR commenced the first of two voyages from London and Falmouth to Lisbon operated by Willcox & Anderson, P&O's founding fathers.