Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
| Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
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| legal form | PLC |
| founding | 1837 |
| resolution | March 7, 2006 |
| Seat | London , UK |
| Branch | shipping |
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The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. ( P&O ) was a British shipping company headquartered in London . It was one of the largest shipping companies in the world and was active in all areas of maritime shipping. Between October 2000 and December 2006, all business areas were spun off or sold one after the other, so that the P&O shipping company ceased to exist at the end of 2006. The British / Irish ferry company P&O Ferries , which continues today under the brand name P&O , belongs to Dubai Ports World and P&O Cruises to Carnival Corporation & plc .
history
Its predecessor was the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company , founded in 1834 by Brodie McGhie Willcox and Arthur Anderson , which offered connections from Great Britain to Spain and Portugal . On the Iberian Peninsula (hence the name: English peninsula = peninsula) were u. a. Vigo , Porto , Lisbon and Cádiz started.
In 1840 the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company was awarded the contract by the British Admiralty for the delivery of mail to India and in 1845 also to East Asia , in 1852 these services were extended to Australia and New Zealand . Since then the company has operated as Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. ( P&O ). Within a short time, P&O became the world's leading shipping company.
A typical line from that time led from London via Gibraltar , ( Malta ), Alexandria , with the Suez Railway to Suez , then via Aden , Bombay , Colombo and Madras to Calcutta . In 1869 the newly opened Suez Canal was added to the route network, until then there was also a route around the Cape of Good Hope to East Asia and Australia. In 1858, P&O started a transpacific service from Australia to the US Pacific ports and Vancouver in Canada .
From the beginning of the 20th century until the 1920s, P&O acquired a number of successful British shipping companies, such as the British India Steam Navigation Company , New Zealand Shipping Company , Federal Steam Navigation Company , General Steam Navigation Company , Union Steam Ship Company , Strick Line , Hain Line , Nourse Line , Moss-Hutchinson Lines and a few others.
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During the First World War , like all British shipping companies, P&O suffered heavy losses in crews and ships. After the end of the war in 1918, an extensive new building program was launched and by the beginning of the 1930s, the ship losses were made up again. The global economic crisis that began in 1929 meant a new setback and just as the situation began to improve, the Second World War began .
After 1945 P&O had to initiate an extensive new building program again. Because of the increasing share of airfreight and containers in the freight business, the situation began to change from the 1950s, reinforced by independence movements in the colonies . For this reason, P&O merged with the Orient Steam Navigation Company in 1960 to form P & O-Orient Line Ltd. , but as early as 1968 P&O bought up all the remaining shares in the Orient Line.
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In order to meet further developments, the shipping company was completely restructured at the beginning of the 1970s. Due to the competition of the aircraft, there was no longer any money to be made with the passenger liner services and the container ship began to prevail in the cargo shipping sector. The freighter fleet therefore had to be converted to the new type of ship, as the existing cargo ship tonnage was now out of date. For this reason, new subsidiaries were founded, the P&O Passenger Division (cruises, ferries) and the P&O Cargo Division (freight containers), and all other subsidiary shipping companies that had been managed up to that point were distributed among the new companies and thus practically dissolved - a shock for the former British merchant fleet.
From the mid-1970s, P&O went uphill again, in 1974 the US shipping company Princess Cruises was bought up in the cruise sector and built into one of the largest cruise lines. By founding P & O-Overseas Container Lines Ltd. the shipping company now fully entered the container business and with the joint venture North Sea Ferries NV , in association with the Dutch Nedlloyd group, they were now also represented in the ferry services.
In 1987 P&O bought Townsend-Thoresen European Ferries Ltd. and traded as P&O European Ferries Ltd. and built it into a successful ferry line. On March 6, 1987 , 193 people were killed in the sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise , which drove for the newly incorporated company.
In 1988, P&O bought the Italian Sitmar Group, thereby strengthening its position in cruise services. In 1996 the merger with the Dutch Nedlloyd group takes place in the container services sector. The newly created company traded as P & O-Nedlloyd Container Lines Ltd. Both partners each held 50% of the shares. In 1998 the British container shipping company Blue Star Line was bought up.
In 2000 P&O acquired the successful German club ship operator AIDA Cruises and tried to copy the concept with A'Rosa Cruises and P&O OceanVillage , which only worked to a limited extent. In the same year , a joint venture with Stena Line under the brand name "P&O Stena Line" was founded on the Dover - Calais ferry line , under the influence of the Eurotunnel - the cooperation was limited exclusively to this line. In December 2000, the logistics subsidiary P&O Trans European went to the British company Wincanton .
In 2002 it was announced that the P&O cruise division was seeking a merger with the No. 2 cruise line - Royal Caribbean Cruise Line . The resulting company would have become the largest cruise line in the world. The Carnival Corporation , concerned about their leadership role, then offered 1.2 billion USD for P & O Princess Cruises. The P&O shareholders finally approved the sale of the entire cruise division, with the companies P&O Cruises , Princess Cruises , P&O Holiday Ltd. , P&O OceanVillage , Swan Hellenic Cruises Ltd. and AIDA Cruises / A'Rosa Cruises to Carnival Corporation, which initially continued to operate the company under the old or similar brand name. In 2002, all ferry activities were merged under the name P&O Ferries Ltd. , the joint venture with Stena Line was dissolved.
In 2004 P&O sold its stake in P & O-Nedlloyd Container Lines Ltd. at the Kon. Nedlloyd NV for 450 million US dollars and received 25% of the Nedlloyd shares itself. The new company traded as Royal P & O-Nedlloyd NV On May 11, 2005, the large Danish container shipping company AP Møller-Mærsk offered 2.4 billion US dollars for Royal P & O-Nedlloyd NV , the boards of P&O and Nedlloyd advised their shareholders to accept the offer and on June 29, 2005 P&O sold its own Nedlloyd shares to the Danish bank and AP Møller-Maersk.
In 2005, only the ferry division ( P&O Ferries ) and the port operator and logistician ( P&O Ports ) remained of what was once the world's largest shipping company . At the end of the year, there was a prospect for this remainder in the form of DP World ( Dubai Ports Worldwide ) and an offer of 5.75 billion US dollars in cash.
The takeover was in trouble for some time. The US part of P&O Ports was not allowed to be taken over by the Arabs after a protest by the US Congress. Dubai Ports World therefore agreed to sell this part to an American company. On December 11, 2006, a subsidiary of the AIG ( American International Group ) took over P&O Ports North America for an unknown amount.
Passenger ships of the P&O 1836–2005 (selection)
| year | Surname | tonnage | shipyard | Status / fate |
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| 1836 | Iberia (I) | 516 GRT | 1856 out of service and sold for demolition | |
| 1837 | Tagus | 800 GRT | 1864 decommissioned and sold for demolition | |
| 1837 | Don juan | 800 GRT | Stranded near Gibraltar in 1837 and abandoned | |
| 1839 | India (I) | 871 GRT | Sold in 1849 | |
| 1842 | Hindustan (I) | 2,018 GRT | Sunk in a storm near Calcutta in 1864 | |
| 1847 | Indus (I) | 1,386 GRT | Sold in 1869 | |
| 1847 | Pekin (I) | 1,190 GRT | 1866 out of service and sold for demolition | |
| 1848 | Malta (I) | 1,218 GRT | Caird & Company , Greenock | Sold in 1878 |
| 1850 | Ganges (I) | 1,190 GRT | Sold in 1871 | |
| 1850 | Singapore (I) | 1,190 GRT | Stranded on the Japanese coast in 1867 | |
| 1852 | Madras | 1,190 GRT | Sold in 1874 | |
| 1852 | Bombay (I) | 1,190 GRT | Sold in 1878 | |
| 1853 | Himalaya (I) | 3,438 GRT | Sold to the Royal Navy in 1854 | |
| 1853 | Bengal (I) | 2,185 GRT | Tod & McGregor, Glasgow | Sold in 1870 |
| 1854 | Simla (I) | 2,441 GRT | Sold in 1875 | |
| 1857 | Delhi (I) | 2,018 GRT | Tod & McGregor, Glasgow | 1860: Nemesis / sold in 1869 |
| 1858 | Ceylon | 2,021 GRT | Sold in 1881 | |
| 1860 | Mooltan (I) | 2,257 GRT | Sold in 1880 | |
| 1863 | Poona (I) | 2,152 GRT | Sold in 1889 | |
| 1864 | Nyanza (I) | 2,082 GRT | Sold in 1873 | |
| 1865 | Mongolia (I) | 2,999 GRT | 1888 out of service and sold for demolition | |
| 1866 | Surat (I) | 2,578 GRT | Sold in 1894 | |
| 1867 | Sumatra (I) | 2,488 GRT | Sold in 1886 | |
| 1868 | Deccan | 3,128 GRT | Sold in 1889 | |
| 1868 | Hindustan (II) | 3,128 GRT | Stranded near Madras in 1879 | |
| 1870 | Australia (I) | 3,777 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1889 |
| 1871 | Khedive | 3,777 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1897 |
| 1871 | Peshawur | 3,777 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1899 |
| 1871 | Mirzapore | 3,777 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1898 |
| 1871 | Pekin (II) | 3777 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1897 |
| 1871 | Indus (II) | 3,469 GRT | Stranded near Ceylon in 1885 | |
| 1872 | Cathay (I) | 2,984 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1890 |
| 1872 | Hydaspes | 2,984 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1898 |
| 1873 | Malwa (I) | 2,933 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1894 |
| 1873 | Bokhara | 2,932 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sunk in a storm in Formosa Street (Taiwan) in 1892 (125 dead) |
| 1873 | Nizam | 2,733 GRT | 1893 decommissioned and sold for demolition | |
| 1873 | Gwalior | 2,733 GRT | Sold in 1894 | |
| 1875 (1873) | Siam | 3,033 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1873 for NDL / 1875 to P&O / 1895 |
| 1875 (1873) | Assam | 3,033 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1873 for NDL / 1875 to P&O / 1895 |
| 1876 | Nepal | 3,536 GRT | A. Stephen & Sons Ltd., Glasgow | Stranded near Plymouth in 1890 |
| 1878 | Kaisar-I-Hind | 4,023 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1897 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1879 | Ancona | 3,116 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1899 |
| 1879 | Verona | 3,116 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1899 out of service and sold for demolition |
| 1880 | Brindisi | 3,542 GRT | Sold in 1889 | |
| 1880 | Rome | 5,013 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1904: "Vectis" (III) / 1912 sold |
| 1881 | Carthage (I) | 5,013 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1903 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1882 | Clyde | 4,196 GRT | W. Denny & Bros. Ltd., Dumbarton | Sold in 1901 |
| 1881 | Shannon | 4,196 GRT | W. Denny & Bros. Ltd., Dumbarton | 1901 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1882 | Thames | 4,196 GRT | J. & G. Thomson Ltd. , Clydebank | 1901 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1882 | Ganges (II) | 4,196 GRT | Caird & Co., Glasgow | Burned out in Bombay in 1898 |
| 1882 | Sutlej | 4,196 GRT | W. Denny & Bros. Ltd., Dumbarton | 1900 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1882 | Ballarat (I) | 4,759 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1904 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1882 | Parramatta | 4,759 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1903 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1884 | Massilia | 4,908 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1903 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1884 | Chusan (II) | 4,490 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1905 |
| 1884 | Tasmania | 4,488 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Stranded and sunk near Corsica in 1887 (35 dead) |
| 1885 | Corromandel (I) | 4,359 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1905 |
| 1886 | Bengal (II) | 4,359 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1905 |
| 1887 | Victoria (I) | 6,525 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1909 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1887 | Britannia | 6,525 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1909 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1888 | Arcadia (I) | 6,610 GRT | Harland & Wolff, Belfast | 1915 out of service and sold for demolition |
| 1888 | Oceana (I) | 6,610 GRT | Harland & Wolff, Belfast | Sunk after a collision in the English Channel in 1912 |
| 1888 | Oriental (II) | 5,294 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1915 |
| 1888 | Peninsular (II) | 5,294 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1909 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1892 | Aden | 3,925 GRT | Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough | Sunk in the Indian Ocean off Socotra in 1897 (78 dead) |
| 1892 | Himalaya (II) | 6,901 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1922 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1892 | Australia (II) | 6,901 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Burnt out at Port Pilipp in 1904 |
| 1894 | Caledonia | 7,558 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1925 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1895 | Malta (II) | 6,064 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1922 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1895 | Simla (II) | 5,914 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Torpedoed and sunk near Malta in 1916 |
| 1895 | Nubia (II) | 5,914 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sunk in the roadstead near Colombo in 1915 |
| 1896 | Candia (II) | 6,482 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1917 torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel |
| 1896 | India (II) | 7,911 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Torpedoed and sunk near Norway in 1915 (160 dead) |
| 1896 | China (II) | 7,912 GRT | Harland & Wolff, Belfast | 1928 out of service and sold for demolition |
| 1897 | Egypt | 7,912 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sunk after a collision off Ouessant in 1922 (87 dead) |
| 1898 | Arabia | 7,903 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1916 torpedoed and sunk near Cape Matapan (11 dead) |
| 1900 | Persia | 7,974 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1915 torpedoed and sunk near Crete (343 dead) |
| 1899 | Assays | 7,405 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1928 out of service and sold for demolition |
| 1900 | Plassy | 7,405 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1924 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1900 | Sobraon | 7,382 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sunk in 1901 |
| 1901 | Syria (I) | 6,780 GRT | A. Stephen & Sons Ltd., Glasgow | 1924 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1901 | Sicilia | 6,780 GRT | A. Stephen & Sons Ltd., Glasgow | 1926 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1901 | Soudan (I) | 6,780 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1925 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1901 | Somali (I) | 6,780 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1923 |
| 1902 | Sardinia | 6,574 GRT | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow | 1925 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1903 | Moldavia (I) | 9,505 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1918 torpedoed and sunk near Beachy Head (Canal) (56 dead) |
| 1903 | Mongolia (II) | 9,505 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1917 sunk near Bombay after being hit by a mine (23 dead) |
| 1903 | Marmora | 10,509 GRT | Harland & Wolff, Belfast | 1918 torpedoed and sunk near Ireland (10 dead) |
| 1904 | Macedonia | 10,512 GRT | Harland & Wolff, Belfast | 1931 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1905 | Mooltan (II) | 9,621 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Torpedoed and sunk near Sardinia in 1917 |
| 1903 | Palermo | 7,635 GRT | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Greenock | 1924 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1903 | Palma | 7,635 GRT | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Greenock | 1924 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1903 | Pera (II) | 7,635 GRT | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Greenock | Torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean in 1917 |
| 1905 | Peshawur | 7,635 GRT | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow | Torpedoed and sunk near Ireland in 1917 |
| 1905 | Poona (II) | 7,635 GRT | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow | 1924 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1905 | Delhi (II) | 8,092 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1911 stranded / sunk near Cape Spartel (3 dead) |
| 1905 | Delta (III) | 8,092 GRT | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow | 1929 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1905 | Dongola | 8,092 GRT | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow | 1926 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1906 | Devanha | 8,092 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1928 out of service and sold for demolition |
| 1906 | Nile | 6,875 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1915 stranded / sunk in the Japanese inland sea |
| 1906 | Namur | 6,875 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Torpedoed and sunk near Gibraltar in 1917 |
| 1907 | Nore | 6,875 GRT | 1925 decommissioned and sold for demolition | |
| 1907 | Nyanza (II) | 6,875 GRT | 1927 decommissioned and sold for demolition | |
| 1907 | Novara | 6,875 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1932 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1907 | Nankin (II) | 6,875 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1932 |
| 1907 | Nagoya | 6,875 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1932 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1907 | Nellore | 6,875 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sold in 1929 |
| 1908 | Salsette (II) | 5,842 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Sunk near Isle of Portland in 1917 |
| 1908 | Morea | 10,890 GRT | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Greenock | 1930 out of service and sold for demolition |
| 1909 | Malwa (II) | 10,883 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1932 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1909 | Mantua (I) | 10,946 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1935 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1911 | Maloja | 12,431 GRT | Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast | Sunk near Dover in 1916 after being hit by a mine (155 dead) |
| 1911 | Medina | 12,358 GRT | Caird & Co. , Greenock | 1917 torpedoed and sunk in front of Start Point (Devon) headland (6 dead) |
| 1911 | Ballarat (II) | 11,120 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | Torpedoed and sunk in the canal in 1917 |
| 1911 | Benalla | 11,118 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1931 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1911 | Beltana | 11,120 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1930 out of service and sold for demolition |
| 1913 | Berrima | 11,137 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1930 out of service and sold for demolition |
| 1914 | Borda | 11,136 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1928 out of service and sold for demolition |
| 1914 | Khiva (II) | 8,947 GRT | Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd. , Birkenhead | 1931 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1914 | Khyber (I) | 8,946 GRT | Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd., Birkenhead | 1931 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1914 | Karmala (I) | 8,947 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1932 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1914 | Kashgar (II) | 8,840 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1932 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1915 | Kalyan | 8,947 GRT | Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd., Birkenhead | 1932 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1915 | Kashmir | 8,841 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1932 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1914 | Emperor of India | 11,518 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1938 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1920 | Naldera | 15,824 GRT | Caird & Co., Greenock | 1938 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1920 | Narcunda | 16,227 GRT | Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast | Sunk near Algeria in 1942 after being hit by a bomb |
| 1921 | Baradine (I) | 13,144 GRT | Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast | 1936 out of service and sold for demolition |
| 1921 | Ballarat (III) | 13,033 GRT | Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast | 1935 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1922 | Balranald (I) | 13,039 GRT | Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast | 1936 out of service and sold for demolition |
| 1922 | Bendigo (I) | 13,039 GRT | Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast | 1936 out of service and sold for demolition |
| 1922 | Barrabool | 13,148 GRT | Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast | 1936 out of service and sold for demolition |
| 1923 | Maloja (II) | 20,837 GRT | Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast | 1954 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1923 | Mooltan (III) | 20,847 GRT | Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast | 1954 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1923 | Mongolia (III) | 16,504 GRT | Sir WG Armstrong-Whitworth & Co., Ltd. , Newcastle | 1938 sold to NZSCo and Rimutaka renamed |
| 1923 | Moldavia (II) | 16,436 GRT | Sir WG Armstrong-Whitworth & Co., Ltd., Newcastle | 1938 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1924 | Comorin (I) | 15,116 GRT | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow | Burned out and sunk near Sierra Leone in 1941 |
| 1925 | Chitral (I) | 15,248 GRT | A. Stephen & Sons Ltd., Glasgow | 1953 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1925 | Cathay (II) | 15,104 GRT | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow | Sunk in 1942 near Bougie (Algeria) after being hit by a bomb |
| 1925 | Razmak | 10,602 GRT | Harland & Wolff, Greenock | 1930 sold to Union SS Co., Monowai |
| 1925 | Rajputana | 16,658 GRT | Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries, Greenock | Torpedoed and sunk near Iceland in 1941 (40 dead) |
| 1925 | Ranpura | 16,738 GRT | Hawthorn, Leslie & Company , Newcastle upon Tyne | 1944 to the Royal Navy and conversion to a workshop ship |
| 1925 | Rawalpindi | 1.6695 GRT | Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries, Greenock | Sunk near Norway by German warships in 1939 |
| 1925 | Ranchi | 16,650 GRT | Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne | 1953 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1929 | Viceroy of India | 19,648 GRT | A. Stephen & Sons Ltd., Glasgow | Torpedoed and sunk near Oran (Morocco) in 1942 |
| 1931 | Corfu | 14,293 GRT | A. Stephen & Sons Ltd., Glasgow | 1961 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1931 | Carthage (II) | 14,304 GRT | A. Stephen & Sons Ltd., Glasgow | 1961 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1931 | Strathnaver (I) | 22,544 GRT | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. , Barrow | 1962 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1932 | Strathaird (I) | 22,544 GRT | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Barrow | 1961 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1935 | Strathmore | 23,580 GRT | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Barrow | 1963 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1937 | Stratheden | 23,722 GRT | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Barrow | 1964 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1937 | Strathallan | 23,732 GRT | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Barrow | Torpedoed and sunk near Oran (Morocco) in 1942 |
| 1938 | Canton | 15,784 GRT | A. Stephen & Sons Ltd., Glasgow | 1962 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1938 | Ettrick | 11,279 GRT | Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow | Torpedoed and sunk near Gibraltar in 1942 (24 dead) |
| 1949 | Himalaya (III) | 27,955 GRT | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Barrow | 1974 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1950 | Chusan (II) | 24,215 GRT | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Barrow | 1973 out of service and sold for demolition |
| 1954 | Iberia (II) | 29,664 GRT | Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast | 1972 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1954 | Arcadia (II) | 29,664 GRT | John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank | 1979 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1961 | Canberra | 45,270 GRT | Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast | 1997 decommissioned and sold for demolition |
| 1961 (1956) | Chitral (II) | 13,821 GRT | Chantiers de l'Atlantique SA , St. Nazaire | 1956 ex Jadotville for CMB / 1961 to P&O / 1975 out of service |
| 1961 (1957) | Cathay (III) | 13,821 GRT | Chantiers de l'Atlantique SA, St. Nazaire | 1957 ex Baudouinville for CMB / 1961 sold to P&O / 1976 |
| 1964 (1960) | Oriana | 41,915 GRT | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Barrow | 1960 for Orient Line / 1964 sold to P&O / 1986 |
| 1964 (1948) | Orcades | 28,396 GRT | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Barrow | 1948 for Orient Line / 1964 to P&O / 1973 demolition |
| 1964 (1951) | Oronsay | 28,472 GRT | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Barrow | 1951 for Orient Line / 1964 to P&O / 1975 demolition |
| 1964 (1954) | Orsova | 28,472 GRT | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Barrow | 1954 for Orient Line / 1964 to P&O / 1973 demolition |
| 1995 | Oriana (II) | 69,153 GT | Jos. L. Meyer shipyard , Papenburg | in service at P&O Cruises |
| 1995 (1988) | Arcadia (III) | 63,524 GT | Chantiers de l'Atlantique SA, St. Nazaire | Transferred to P&O OceanVillage in 2003, Adonia |
| 2000 | Aurora | 76,152 GT | Jos. L. Meyer shipyard, Papenburg | in service at P&O Cruises |
| 2001 (2000) | Oceana (II) | 77,441 GT | Fincantieri SpA , Monfalcone | 2000 ex Ocean Princess / 2001 at P&O / in service at P&O Cruises |
