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Postcard of KAISAR-I-HIND passing through.  She ran aground in the Canal in 1879 PESHAWUR was one of the first P&O ships designed and built to transit the Suez Canal Port Said developed (from 1859) as the port at the mouth of the Suez Canal, 1870s Company steamers travelling through the Suez Canal, 1870s NUBIA at Southampton Docks, P&O's home port from 1840 to 1874. Company steamer carrying cargo in the 1870s (oil on canvas) KAISER-I-HIND took her name from Queen Victoria's title, 'Empress of India’