"Calcutta" Type:art print View of the Tourist Class

View of the Tourist Class "1+1" outboard berth cabin A209

painted by David Cobb on her safe return to Southampton on 11 July 1982

announced the arrival of their onward steamer to India

This painting is thought to have been one of group of 'historical ship portraits' bought for the Company by Sir Hugh Casson to decorate CANBERRA in 1961

Hong Kong after a painting by Charles Edward Dixon

"Calcutta" Type:art print View of the Tourist ClassFor the mail, and many passengers, Calcutta, the 'City of Palaces', marked the end of the long journey by both sea and land. The overland route remained the quickest way to reach India but the opening of the Suez Canal, some twenty years later, would revolutionise the way Egypt was crossed.