The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Screw Steam Ship "Madras"

Object summary

Title: The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Screw Steam Ship "Madras"
Object ID: CC-R-0195
Date made: 1855
Place made: United Kingdom, Greater London, London
Printer: G. Rowney & Co.
Draftsman: Jeffreson, W.
Lithographer: Ogle, John Connell
Object type: Lithograph
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

A starboard-broadside view of the screw steamship 'Madras.' She was part of the Peninsular and Oriental (P&O) Steam Navigation Company that carried mail, passengers, and cargo between the UK, Spain and Portugal, Egypt, India, the Far East, and Australia. By the mid-nineteenth century, most of the new ships built for P&O were powered by screw propellers instead of paddle-wheels.