One of the first ships built for voyages through the
Suez Canal. (P&O Lines)
RANCHI
Built 1925
Tonnage 16,650grt
Oil painting by Charles Pears PPSMA, ROI (P&O Lines)
RANPURA
Built 1925
Tonnage 16,600grt
REGAL PRINCESS
Built 1991
Length 811 ft
Tonnage 70,000grt
Service Speed 19.5 knots
Passengers 1590
ROYAL PRINCESS
Built
Tonnage 45,000grt
SALMARA
Built 1956
Tonnage 8,199grt
Acrylic by George Dickenson (P&O Lines)
SEA PRINCESS
Built
Length 856 ft
Tonnage 77,000grt
Service Speed 21
knots
Passengers 1950
SHANGHAI
Built 1851
Tonnage 546grt
SPIRIT OF LONDON
Built 1972
Seen here undergoing sea trials (P&O Lines)
STRATHAIRD
Built 1932
Tonnage 23,000grt
Oil painting by Derek Smoothey,1986.(P&O Lines)
STRATHCARRON
Built 1969
Tonnage 10,031dwt
Started life as BI's Amra but seen here in the livery
of P&O Strath Services. (P&O Lines)
STRATHMORE
Built 1935
Length 665 ft. Beam 82 ft
Tonnage 23,580grt
Service Speed 17.5 knots
Passengers 1094
Crew 534
Built by Vickers-Armstrong Ltd at Barrow-in Furness
for the United Kingdom-Australia service via the Suez
Canal.
STRATHNAVER
Built 1931
Tonnage 22,238grt
The first of the four 'Straths' and the first passenger
ships to revert to the white hull, yellow funnel livery.
Seen here leaving Sydney, Australia on 10th January,1940
as part of the first convoy from Australia and New Zealand
with troops. (Sydney Morning Herald)
SUN PRINCESS
Built 1972
Built as the Spirit of London.
VECTIS
Built 1853
Tonnage 786grt
Lithograph by G.Gregory after Julius Jary (P&O Lines)
She was used to carry Florence Nightingale and her nurses
to the Crimea.
VECTIS
Built 1881
Tonnage 5,010grt
Gouache by R.H.Neville-Cumming (P&O Lines) Built as
the liner Rome she was converted to a 'cruising yacht'
in 1904, P&O's first venture into cruising.
VICEROY OF INDIA
Built 1929
Tonnage 19,645grt
Watercolour by J.Spurling (P&O Lines) She was equipped
with quiet turbo-electric engines and was the first P&O
vessel to have a purpose built swimming pool.
VICTORIA
Built 1887
Tonnage 6,500grt
(P&O Lines) Built as one of four ships to celebrate
Queen Victoria's Jubilee.
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