WILLIAM FAWCETT and HMS Queen in 1837 AUSTRAL (1882) Six vignettes comically illustrating the

Six vignettes comically illustrating the difficulties of dressing for dinner whilst crossing the Bay of Biscay

Work on NARKUNDA (1920) was suspended in 1914 with the onset of the First World War

She ran regularly to Australia and South Africa and undertook short cruises from Southampton or Sydney

340-ton RAVENNA was the first steel vessel built for P&O

SURAT (1948) was built for P&O's North Continent/Grangemouth/London/Southampton/Malaya/Singapore/Manila/Hong Kong/Japan/China service with Taiwan replacing mainland China as a port of call in the 1960s

WILLIAM FAWCETT and HMS Queen in 1837 AUSTRAL (1882) Six vignettes comically illustrating theThe painting depicts what was most probably a fictitious meeting between the sailing warship HMS QUEEN and the 206 ton paddle steamer WILLIAM FAWCETT which made the first Peninsular Steam sailing to Spain and Portugal in 1835.