Point de Galle, Ceylon New Sub Category Originally named PANTHER and in

Originally named PANTHER and in service for Southern Ferries

P&O Print Advertisement for 'India

dated 19th May 1954 from CHUSAN

During the first World War PERA (1903) was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat off Tripoli in 1917 whilst en route from Liverpool to Calcutta

Deck scene entitled - 'An afternoon bask in the sun'

Point de Galle, Ceylon New Sub Category Originally named PANTHER and inAn entry in the P&O Board Minutes for 30th June 1848 records 'Mr. 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.'