Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation. Co.

A photograph album with leather covered board covers, both of which are off. The album was produced for publicity purposes and contains 47 black and white 368mm x 266mm photographs mounted one to a leaf. The upper cover is decorated with the P&O crest. There are several pages of text describing the service and also advertisements on the verso of each leaf.
The album includes Sir Thomas Sutherland and also lthe following vessels: Victoria (1887), Macedonia (1904), Persia (1900), Vectis (1881), Syria (1901), Oceana (1888), Moldavia (1903), Mongolia (1903), China (1896), Palawan (1895), Marmora (1903), Egypt (1897), India (1896), Arabia (1898).
The album also includes the following locations: Gibraltar, Tilbury, Marseilles, Suez Canal.

Object Details

ID: ALB0507
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 584 mm x 444 mm