RANGITATA at sea Post-War Emigration to Australia These are the vessels referred

These are the vessels referred to in Rudyard Kipling’s 'Barrack Room Ballads': “Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay

recollected painting this picture 40 years earlier

NORLAND famously served in the Falkland Islands conflict in 1982 carrying the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment and later Argentinian POWs

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

The painting depicts what was most probably a fictitious meeting between the sailing warship HMS QUEEN and the 206-ton paddle-steamer WILLIAM FAWCETT which made the first Peninsular Steam sailing to Spain and Portugal in 1835

RANGITATA at sea Post-War Emigration to Australia These are the vessels referredRANGITATA (1929) was built by John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank.