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TH Y Join us for a Grand Event and the opportunity to win a world cruise For the fi rst time ever the seven ships of the P&O Cruises fl eet will be together in
Southampton on 3rd July 2012 in celebration of a very special milestone – the 175th anniversary of the formation of the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company.
It all began in 1837 when life on the ocean waves was quite different from the experience we enjoy today. It was in this year that the fi rst offi cial birthday of the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company was documented, when the company’s founding fathers, Arthur Anderson and Brodie McGhie Willcox were awarded the British Government contract for a weekly mail service to the Iberian Peninsula. At this point in history ships were designed for cargo passage rather than carrying passengers, yet it was through the events of this period that cruising as we know it was born. On 4th September the company’s wooden paddle steamer, the Don Juan, set sail to Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz and Gibraltar. Three years later, in 1840, a second mail contract extended the company’s services to the East and, as a result, ‘Oriental’ was added to the name – creating P&O.
Anderson and Willcox recognised the importance of good customer relations, doing their utmost to make sea travel as safe and comfortable as possible, with hearty meals and decent accommodation a priority. Sunday services were offered and benches were placed out on deck. On board entertainment even existed in some form and whilst it was a far cry from the open air cinemas, theatre productions and comedy shows found on board today, it was forward thinking for its day. It was this attention to detail and recognition of travellers’ needs that set the standard others imitated.
In celebration of this exciting milestone, all seven ships of the P&O Cruises fl eet will be together in their home port of Southampton on the same day, 3rd July 2012. This will be a fi rst in the history of the
company and it promises to be a grand event. The ships with their gleaming white hulls and signature “buff” funnels will be alongside at seven different points in the port of Southampton.
Leaving their berths on this historic day, the ship’s passengers and crew will enjoy a champagne deck party as the fl utterfetti fl ies; the marching band plays and the ships sail past in a procession from Southampton Water out into the Solent. It is here, out in the open water that the ships will meet again, saluting one another before they sail onwards to their various exciting destinations.
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extended the company’s services to Egypt and ‘Oriental’ was added to the company name.
A second mail contract
1845
extends further East to Penang, Singapore and Hong Kong
The company’s mail contract
1866
workforce in 10 countries
P&O has 53 steamers and 12,000 strong
1887
P&O’s Golden Jubilee celebrated with the ‘Jubilee’ class steamers
1920’s
shipping company in the world, introduces the technically advanced ‘Viceroy of India’
P&O, the largest
1937
P&O celebrates its centenary
1954
Original Arcadia introduced
1837 Peninsular Steam Navigation Company awarded the British Government contract for a weekly mail service to the Iberian Peninsula
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The company’s mail contract extends to India
1852
‘Chusan’ paddle steamer incorporated for services to Australia
1870 ‘Nubia’, fi rst P&O ship to transit Suez Canal
1904 P&O offers fi rst offi cial programme of pleasure cruises with the ‘Vectis’ cruising yacht and P&O Cruises is created
1918 By the end of WWI, 83 P&O ships had been lost
1930’s White hulls replace the black hulls of the past and launched fi ve ‘white sisters’
1945
By end of WWII P&O had lost more than half of its fl eet
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