HIMALAYA - Passenger Cruise Ship Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company - P&O 28000 grt approx / 1949 blt / BR / 5150800 Underway Sydney - N.D.A. Different View to Ref No. PS 0013 and PS 1896 Don Smith Collection Notes:- Owners : Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company - P&O Built by Vickers Armstrong,Barrow in Furness Ordered : March 1945 Laid Down26.2.1946 Launched 5.10.1948 Completed August 1949 Maiden Voyage 6.10.1949 Out of Service 31.10.1974 Scrapped in 1975

HIMALAYA - Passenger Cruise Ship Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company - P&O 28000 grt approx / 1949 blt / BR / 5150800 Docked Southampton - 3.4.1971 Different View to Ref No. PS 0013 and PS 1896. PS1897 Don Smith Collection Notes:- Owners : Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company - P&O Built by Vickers Armstrong,Barrow in Furness Ordered : March 1945 Laid Down26.2.1946 Launched 5.10.1948 Completed August 1949 Maiden Voyage 6.10.1949 Out of Service 31.10.1974 Scrapped in 1975

Nevasa - Passenger Cruise Ship 20527 / 1956 / UK / 5249948 Arriving Southampton - 1.9.1973 Diffferent view to  REF No. PS 1911 Don Smith Collection Notes:- Built by Barclay,Curle & Co.Glasgow Launched 30.11.1955 Completed 12.7.1956 Maiden Voyage 27.7.1956 Named after a city in Maharashtra Province in Central India she was launched by Mrs JA Boyd-Carpenter, wife of the then Minister of Transport. She entered service as a troopship on a 15 year charter. In October 1962 she made her last trooping voyage before the transfer of the Armed Forces was made entirely by air and was laid up on the River Fal. In November 1964 she was converted at Falmouth to an educational cruise ship. Her tonnages altered to 20160grt Operated by British India Steam Navigation Company  1955 to 1972 then by P & O 1972 to 1975 Her first educational cruise departed from Southampton on October 28th 1965. On January 11th 1975 on arrival at Malta she was unexpectedly withdrawn due to increased operating costs particularly fuel and was sold to the Nan Feng Company - Kaohsiung for scrapping