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Ships

Portraits painted of ships were used from the earliest days, right up to the 1960's, to advertise P&O's fleet. Several examples are included in this selection together with works commissioned to commemorate particular and notable events.

CHUSAN off English Coast
CLYDE at sea
COLOMBO arriving off Sebastopol, 1854
Deck of the P&O Steam Vessel MADRAS
Deck scene on board PESHAWUR
DEVANHA at Kowloon, Hong Kong
FORMOSA in Chinese waters
GANGES (1850) at sea
HIMALAYA in the Thames Estuary

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