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15 unusual facts about Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company


Danemann

Among their customers were British embassies, the P&O Lines and Harrods.

Douglas Darby

He trained at Portsmouth Teachers College before taking a job as steward and galley hand on a P&O liner bound for Australia.

Euan Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes

He was development manager, P&O Bulk Shipping.

James Henry Young

Mr. Young, who commenced life in the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's service, finally gave up seafaring for commercial pursuits in 1853, arriving in Sydney in July 1859.

John Pluthero

Other experience includes senior positions with Holiday Inn Worldwide and P&O Developments.

MS Norbank

MS Norbank is a ro-ro freight vessel that is owned and operated by the British ferry company Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.

MS Norbay

MS Norbay is a ro-ro freight vessel that is owned and operated by the British ferry company Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.

MS Pride of Bruges

The ship entered service in 1987 for Noordzee Veerdiensten or North Sea Ferries, then a joint-venture between Dutch Nedlloyd and British P&O.

MS Pride of Dover

She mainly operated the Dover–Calais route for P&O until 2010.

Pride of Dover was the last new ship to appear in service with the famous Townsend Thoresen orange hull, although she was delivered with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) house flag painted on her funnel in place of the traditional 'TT' insignia.

MS Pride of Winchester

European Ferries Group was purchased by P&O and became P&O European Ferries and the ship was renamed Pride of Winchester in 1989 and remained on the Portsmouth to Cherbourg route until 1994 when she was replaced by a bigger ship, the original Pride of Le Havre.

MS Viking Voyager

European Ferries Group was purchased by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company and became P&O European Ferries and the ship was renamed Pride of Cherbourg in 1989.

PS Ripon

in 1846 for P&O.

Rowland Macdonald Stephenson

In 1838 he became Secretary of "The Comprehensive Company for establishing Regular Steam Communication with India", which became the "Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company" in 1840.

Union Steamship Company

It became a P&O subsidiary in 1917 and founded Union Airways of NZ in 1934.


Allen baronets

The Allen Baronetcy, of Marlow in the County of Buckingham, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 23 January 1933 for Frederick Allen, Deputy Chairman of the P. and O. Company and Managing Director of the British-India Steam Navigation Company.

David Young, Baron Young of Graffham

After the property crash of 1973/4 he assisted Jeffrey Sterling (later Lord Sterling) to reverse his company into T&CP to form a group that later became P&O.

Jeffrey Sterling, Baron Sterling of Plaistow

He was executive chairman of the shipping line P&O from 1983 to 2005, having joined the board as a non-executive Director on 6 February 1980, and is now Life President of P&O Cruises.

Lindsay L. Cooper

From 1965 to 1967 and again in 1970, he worked as a ship's musician on the Queen Mary and P&O passenger liner ships.

SS Himalaya

Following the sale of the Strath Class liners by P&O Himalaya (along with Orcades) was converted to allow the transportation of tourist class passengers only.