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The painting depicts what was most probably a fictitious meeting between the sailing warship HMS QUEEN and the 206-ton paddle-steamer WILLIAM FAWCETT which made the first Peninsular Steam sailing to Spain and Portugal in 1835

VASNA (1917) was utilised as ambulance transport ship when she entered service at the end of the First World War

before reverting to the usual black hull of the P&O Fleet of the period

JUPITER at sea Type:unstretched canvas P&O Print Advertisement for faresJUPITER was first chartered to and then acquired by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for the Peninsular service to replace ROYAL TAR in 1847.