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Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. |
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Founded: |
1845 |
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Ceased: |
still active |
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Updated: 7 July 2007
Notes:
Commonly know simply as the P&O. [W05p166-7]
Started calling at Singapore in 1845. [G01] [B05p378]
About 1844 started calling at Ceylon, Penang and Shanghai. [W05p166-7]
In 1852 a branch service to Australia was started with head office in Singapore. [W05p166-7]
ca1852 The P. & O. Company opened their office in Singapore at this time. Mr. Henry Thomas Marshall was the first agent, with John Say Spakes as a clerk. [B05p568]
On 28th March 1859, Captain H. T. Marshall, for many years the agent of the P. & O. Company in Singapore, then called Superintendent, being about to leave for England, was entertained very handsomely at a large dinner of upwards of sixty persons, by the Freemasons at their Hall on the Esplanade, at the corner of Coleman Street. The chaplain the Rev. T. C. Smyth, M.A. (Cantab.), a high Mason, who was Chaplain for two years at that time, was in the chair. The P. & O. wharf and establishment at New Harbour, which were said to be superior to any other of the company on the line, was due to him, and he had done, the Free Press said, a great deal in the place in very many ways, Municipal, Educational, &c., and would be a great loss. [B05p674]
Owned it own wharf and extensive godowns in Singapore. [W05p166-7]
Staff at Singapore in 1907: 6 Europeans and 100 others. [W05p166-7]
In February 2006 P&O was sold to Dubai Ports World.
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