Tea towel

Souvenir tea towel depicting the P&O Liner 'Oriana' off Naples. Printed design in colour. Above the ship two P & O house flags and the inscription 'ORIANA'. Below, sea shells and weed with a mermaid and merman in Elizabethan costume blowing conch shells. Purchased on cruise of the Norwegian fjords in the 1970s.

Object Details

ID: ZBA1622
Collection: Textiles
Type: Tea towel
Display location: Not on display
Places: Napoli Province
Vessels: Oriana (1960)
Date made: circa 1970
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 710 x 455 mm