.
.
From Wedge's
"Brown's Flags and Funnels" 1940
(PO2) PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM
NAVIGATION CO. 1879 - 1914
(Photos of
the vessels listed
below
are in
“P&O
A Fleet
History” by Stephen Rabson
and Kevin O’Donoghue
published
by the
World Ship Society, U.K.
1988.) Most of the
images below are from this
source.
Regular Steamer Services: London
to Melbourne and
Sydney via Suez from
1879
LISTED ALPHABETICALLY
ARCADIA (I)
– stscs4bk 6,603gt 1888 Belfast
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
AUSTRALIA
(I) – iscs3bk 3,664gt 1870
Greenock
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
AUSTRALIA
(II) – stscs 6,901gt 1892 Greenock
Dickson Gregory's "Australian Steamships"
.
.
BALLAARAT
– stscs 2bg 4,752gt
1882 Greenock
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
BALLARAT (I)
– st2scs 11,120gt
1911 Greenock
From a postcard
BELTANA
– st2scs 11,167gt 1912 Greenock
From a postcard
.
BENALLA
– st2scs 11,118gt 1913 Greenock
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op.
cut.
.
BENGAL
(II) – stscs 3bkn 4,344gt 1885
Greenock
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
BERRIMA –
st2scs 11,137gt
1913 Greenock
Website of the "old Ship Picture
Galleries"
BOKHARA
– iscs3bkn 2,944gt 1873 Greenock
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
BORDA –
st2scs 11,136gt 1914 Greenock
Rabson & O'Domoghue, op.
cit.
BRINDISI
–
iscs 3bkn 3,542gt 1880 Sunderland
Rabson &
O'Donoghue, op. cit.
BRITANNIA
– stscs 4bk 6,525gt 1887 Greenock
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
CARTHAGE (I)
– iscs 4bkn 5,013gt 1881 Greenock
Rabson &
O'Donoghue, op. cit.
CATHAY (I)
– iscs 3bkn 2,983gt 1872 Dumbarton
Rabson &
O'Donoghue. op. cit.
CHINA (II)
– stscs
7,912gt 1896 Belfast
From a postcard
CHUSAN
(II) – stscs3bkn 4,490gt 1884
Greenock
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
CLYDE
– stscs 3bkn 4,124gt 1881 Dumbarton
Rabson
& O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
COROMANDEL
(I) – stscs 3bkn 4,359gt 1885 Greenock
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
DECCAN
– iscs 3bk 3,128gt 1868 Dumbarton
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
GANGES
(III) – stscs 3bkn 4,196gt 1882 Barrow-in-Furness
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
HIMALAYA
(II) – stscs 6,898gt 1892 Greenock
From a postcard
.
HYDASPES
–
iscs3bkn 2,984gt 1872
Dumbarton
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
INDIA
(II) – stscs
7,911gt 1896 Greenock
From the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
INDUS
(I) – iscs 3bk 3,462gt 1871 Dumbarton
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
KAISAR-I-HIND
(I)
– iscs 3bk 4,023gt 1878 Greenock
Rabson &
O'Donoghue, op. cit.
KAISAR-I-HIND (II) - st2scs
11,518gt 1914 Greenock
From a postcard
.
KASHGAR
(I) – iscs2bg 2,621gt 1874 Sunderland
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
KHEDIVE –
iscs3bk 3,742gt 1871 Greenock
.
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op.
cit.
MACEDONIA
– st2scs 10,512gt 1904 Belfast
Rabson & Donoghue, op,
cit.
MALOJA (I)
– st2scs 12,431gt 1911 Belfast
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
MALWA
(I) – iscs3bkn 2,933gt 1873
Greenock
Website of the
"Old Ship Picture Galleries"
.
MALWA (II)
– st2scs
10,883gt 1908 Greenock
.
From a postcard
.
MANTUA (I)
– st2scs 10,946gt 1909 Greenock
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
.
.
MARMORA
– st2scs 10,509gt 1903 Belfast
From a postcard
MASSILIA
(II) – stscs 3bkn 4,908gt 1884 Greenock
Dickson Gregory's "Australian
Steamships"
MEDINA
– st2scs 12,368gt 1911 Greenock
As a Royal Yacht in 1911 / Dickson
Gregory's "Australian Steamships"
MIRZAPORE (II)
– iscs3bkn 3,763gt 1871 Greenock
Watercolour by W.
Baddeley
Rabson &
O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
MOLDAVIA (I)
– st2scs 9,505gt 1903 Greenock
Website of the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
MONGOLIA
(II) – st2scs 9505gt 1903 Greenock
From a
postcard
MOOLTAN(II)
– st2scs 9,621gt 1905 Greenock
From a postcard
.
MOREA
– st2scs 10,895gt 1908 Glasgow
.
From the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
NIZAM
– iscs 3bk 2,726gt 1873 Dumbarton
Rabson
& O'Donoghue, op. cit.
OCEANA –
stscs 4bk 6,610gt 1888 Belfast
From the "Old Ship Picture
Galleries"
ORIENTAL
(II)– stscs 3bkn 5284gt 1888 Greenock
Rabson &
O'Donoghue, op. cit.
PARRAMATTA
– stscs 2bg 4,759gt 1882 Greenock
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
PEKIN
(II) – iscs 3bkn 3,777gt 1871 Greenock
Rabsoon & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
.
PENINSULAR
– stscs 3bkn 5,294gt 1888 Greenock
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
PERSIA –
stscs 7,951gt 1900 Greenock
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
PESHAWUR (I)
– icsc 3bkn 3,740gt 1871 Greenock
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op.
cit.
RAVENNA –
stscs 3bkn 3,372gt 1880 Dumbarton
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
ROHILLA
– iscs 3bkn 3,500gt 1880 Greenock (As a troopship and
without
a third mast.)
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
ROME -
iscs 4bkn 5,013gt 1881 Greenock
Dickson Gregory's "Australian Steamships"
ROSETTA
– iscs3bkn 3,502gt 1880 Belfast
.
Rabson &
O'Donoghue, op. cit.
SHANNON –
iscs 3bg 4,198gt 1881 Belfast
P
& O’s last
iron built ship
Dickson Gregory's "Australian Steamships"
SURAT (I)
– iscs 2bg 2,578gt 1866 Northam
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
SUTLEJ –
stscs 3bkn 4,194gt 1882 Barrow-in-Furness
Rabson &
O'Donoghue, op. cit.
TASMANIA
–
stscs 3bkn 4,488gt 1884 Greenock
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
THAMES –
stscs 3bkn 4,101gt1882 Glasgow
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
.
VALETTA
(II) – stscs 3bk 4,911gt 1883 Greenock
The first P&O ship with electric
light –in 1st class saloon
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op.cit.
.
VENETIA –
iscs 3bk 2,726gt 1873 Dumbarton
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
VERONA
– iscs 3bkn 3,116gt 1879 Greenock
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
VICTORIA
– stscs 4bk 6,522gt 1887 Greenock
.
Rabson & O'Donoghue, op. cit.
List of
P&O vessels in the Australian service from John M.Maber's
"North Star to Southern
Cross" (T.
Stephenson & Sons Ltd, Prescott,
Lancs.1967) and
ship details from Duncan
Haws'
"Merchant Fleets
in Profile. 1. The Ships of
the P&O, Orient and BlueAnchor Lines"
(Patrick Stephens Ltd,
Cambridge 1978)
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