KHYBER disembarking her crew Type:unstretched canvas PENINSULAR and her sister ship

PENINSULAR and her sister ship ORIENTAL were known as the ‘pretty sisters’ although PENINSULAR was generally considered the better of the two ships

In the First World War PLASSY was used as a hospital ship and later to repatriate POWs

William Adolphus Knell was the most accomplished of a family of marine painters

Nicholls sends 6 watercolour drawings of principal ports visited by the Company's steamers from Southampton to Ceylon in return for free passage granted to his wife in August 1846

for which P&O received a government subsidy

KHYBER disembarking her crew Type:unstretched canvas PENINSULAR and her sister shipKHYBER (1945)at anchor is seen disembarking her crew into tenders.