Off the coast of Gibraltar L N G CHALLENGER She was the fastest ship

She was the fastest ship on the Australian Mail run until P&O’s ‘Straths’ in 1931

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

and there were special suites on the promenade deck in Louis XVI style

vol 115 - October 1931

The passenger ship depicted is believed to be VECTIS (1881)

Off the coast of Gibraltar L N G CHALLENGER She was the fastest shipAn 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.'