From Wedge's "Brown's Flags and
Funnels" 1940
(PO1) PENINSULAR &
ORIENTAL STEAM
NAVIGATION CO.
(P&O)
Sail
Auxiliaries/ Steamers 1852 -1878
(Photos of
most of the vessels listed below are in “P&O A Fleet
History”
by Stephen . and Kevin O’Donoghue,
World
Ship Society, 1988)
and most of the images below are from
this fleet history.
A.
Sydney-Melbourne-Singapore Service 1852-1854
CHUSAN
(I)– iscs3bk 699gt 1852 Newcastle
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
FORMOSA
(I)–
iscs 3bk 672gt 1852 Glasgow
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
SHANGHAI (I)
– iscs 3bk 546gt 1851 London
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
BOMBAY (II)
– iscs 3bk 1186gt 1852 Glasgow
Artist: Frederick Garling
State Library of New South Wales
(Digital Order
a128218)
MADRAS
– iscs3bk 1185gt 1852 Glasgow
Capt. H. Parker & F.C. Bowen's
"Mail & Passenger
Steamships of the Nineteenth
Century"
B. Sydney-Melbourne-Mauritius-Suez 1859
SALSETTE
(I) – iscs3bkn 1491gt 1858
Glasgow
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
EMEU –
1scs3bk 1538gt 1854
Glasgow
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
COLUMBIAN
– iscs 2112gt 1855
See European &
Australian
Glasgow
(acquired 1866)
Royal Mail Co. Ltd (EU)
BENARES (I)
– iscs3bkn 1491gt 1858
Glasgow
Only image found is of a hulk
MALTA (I)
– ips 1218gt 1848 Greenock
(1858
lengthened, re-rigged
and
converted to screw propulsion, 3bk
1943gt). In 1859,
opened
Suez-
Sydney service
via
Mauritius.
Artist Frederick Garling
State Library of New South Wales
(Digital Order a218219)
NORTHAM
– iscs3bk 1330gt 1858 Northam
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
C.
Sydney-Melbourne-Point de Galle 1860-1873
JEDDO–
iscs3bk 1632gt 1859 Birkenhead
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
OTTAWA
(I) – iscs3bk 1275gt
1853 Birkenhead
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
ELLORA
(I) (ex-CADIZ) – iscs2bg 1607gt 1855
Birkenhead (acquired 1856)
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
GEELONG
–
iscs2bg 1835gt 1866 Dumbarton
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
AVOCA
– iscs2bg 1480gt 1866 Dumbarton
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
RANGOON - iscs3bk 1776gt 1863
London (Wrecked off Point de Galle,
Sri Lanka, November 1, 1871)
Wood engraving in an Australian
State Library of Victoria
illustrated newspaper
(IAN01/01/72/8)
.
NUBIA
– iscs3bk 2096gt 1854 Birkenhead
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
BARODA
– iscs2bg 1874gt 1864 London
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
BANGALORE
– iscs2bg 2342gt 1867 Dumbarton
Artist:
Frederick Garling
Australian National Maritime Museum
("Entering Sydney Heads") (#00015459)
TANJORE
–
iscs2bg 1971gt 1865 London
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
SUMATRA
(I)–
iscs 2bg 2488 1867
Dumbarton
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
D.
Melbourne-Point de Galle 1874-1878 (with feeder service
Sydney-Melbourne)
PERA (I)
(ex-ALMA) – iscs3bk 1014gt 1855
London
No image found.
CEYLON
(I) – iscs3bk 2921gt 1858 London
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
GOLCONDA
–
iscs2bg 1909gt 1863 London
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
ASSAM
(ex-FELDMARSCHALL
MOLTKE) – iscs3bkn
2033gt
1873
Greenock
Rabson
& O'Donoghue, op. cit.
CHINA
(ex-HABANA, ex-ALMA) – iscs2bg
2016gt
1856 Birkenhead
Rabson
& O'Donohue, op. cit.
MONGOLIA (I)
– iscs 3bkn 2999gt 1865 Greenock
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
Travancore
–
iscs2bg 1889gt 1868
Kirkcaldy,
Fife
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
Siam
(ex-Minister
Roon) –iscs2bg 3926gt
1873 Greenock (acquired
1875)
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op.
cit.
List of
P&O vessels that traded with Australian ports from John M.
Maber's
"North Star to Southern Cross" (T.Stephenson &
Sons Ltd, Prescot, Lancashire
1967) and ship details
from
Duncan Haws' "Mercahant fleets in profile. 1. The ships
of the P&O, Orient
and Blue Anchor Lines."(Patrick Stephens Limited, Cambridge
1978).
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