P&O Steamer at Brindisi Frame:black Sargent's portrait of Sir Thomas

Sargent's portrait of Sir Thomas Sutherland was commissioned by the company in 1897

Six vignettes illustrating the first dinner at sea

RANCHI (1925) was one of the first P&O ships to use refrigerated spaces for the carriage of frozen stores such as fish and fruit

ROHNA (1926) was the first merchant ship sunk by a guided missile during World War II

MASSILIA (1860) was built for P&O's Southampton/Alexandria service

P&O Steamer at Brindisi Frame:black Sargent's portrait of Sir ThomasOne of a set of three small watercolours by W. W. Lloyd in our collection and reproduced in the P&O Pocket Book for 1900. Note the P&O Agent's office on the quayside.