CALEDONIA outward bound Frame:gold Tahiti in 1960

Tahiti in 1960

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

PESHAWUR (1905) was the first P&O ship to sail on the former Blue Anchor Line service to Australia via the Cape

First Class Baggage Label for the passage from Singapore to Bangkok

William Adolphus Knell was the most accomplished of a family of marine painters

CALEDONIA outward bound Frame:gold Tahiti in 1960CALEDONIA is depicted here flying a blue ensign in respect of her status as an 'auxillary cruiser', for which P&O received a government subsidy.