175 years of P&O


As P&O prepares to celebrate their 175th anniversary, all seven ships will be together in their home port of Southampton on 3 July 2012. Emma Freeman looks back at the line’s history


This pic and below left P&O liner RMS Strathaird Below right Strathaird


hosts the 1948 Australian cricket team


Arthur Anderson became a clerk in the London shipping firm of Brodie McGhie Willcox, where he worked his way up to become a


partner in 1822. Together, he and Willcox developed the mail and cargo shipping business between Britain and the Iberian peninsula.


▼1822


▼1756


1792


The British Government started operating monthly mail brigs from Falmouth to New York in 1756. These ships carried few non-governmental passengers and no cargo.


Arthur Anderson was born in Lerwick in 1792. As a boy, he worked on the beach, preparing freshly-caught fish for market. The Crown attempted to press gang him but he was allowed to join the Royal Navy in 1808 and was discharged 10 years later, in 1818, after serving King and


country in the Napoleonic wars.


1817


Above top P&O’s SS Iberia Above SS Arcadia bell, 1954


The first regular scheduled transatlantic shipping route was opened in 1817 by the Black Ball Line in New York, and 27 ships plied the route over the ensuing years, including the Montezuma (pictured).


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