[BITList] Fwd: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] When P&O Ferries had a rather more ornate name ...

[John Feltham]

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There was a time when P&O Ferries had a rather more
ornate name and sailed past Calais all the way to to Hong
Kong. Peter Moore explains all.

*** "A contract was made, 1st January 1845, with the Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for a line of similar
steamers, seven in number, from England to the East Indies
and China, at £160,000 sterling or $800,000 per annum."

"This line passes from Southampton, via Gibraltar and Malta,
to Alexandria, in Egypt; thence the route continues overland
to Suez, at the heart of the Red Sea, from whence the steamers
again start, touching at Aden, Bombay, and at Point de Galle,
in the island Ceylon, from whence they proceed to Singapore
and Hong Kong." ***

(From a report by the American Colonization Society to the
House of Representatives in August 1850)

http://www.po-ferries-uk.co.uk/blog/po-ferries/the-peninsular-and-oriental-steam-navigation-company/



ooroo

Bad typists of the word, untie.