Emigration to Australia

P&O has had links with Australia for over 150 years since CHUSAN arrived in Sydney in August 1852 and in the decades following WWII thousands migrated to Australia on P&O ships with new schemes to encourage them such as the '10 pound Pom' assisted passage scheme. Browse this gallery to see images of P&O ships that transported the migrants, the Australian ports where they started their new lives and ephemera from the voyage.

England via Suez by P&O
For the best at sea sail P&O
H.M. Queen Elizabeth II visiting ORIANA
HIMALAYA arriving in Sydney, Australia
Information leaflet about ARCADIA
Launch of ORIANA at Barrow-in-Furness
Leaflet for IBERIA 'Welcome on board'
Maiden voyage for ORIANA
MALOJA at sea

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