"Cairo" BARPETA (1960) JUPITER was first chartered to

JUPITER 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

depicted mounted on their famous Nedj horses

View inside the 'Stokehole' with 'Seedie boys' 'Firemen at work'

The author Noel Mostert embarked on board ARDSHIEL (1969) for a round voyage Europe/Gulf/Europe which led to his ‘New Yorker’ articles and best-selling book on tanker safety

"Cairo" BARPETA (1960) JUPITER was first chartered toAt Cairo passengers were accommodated (at the expense of P&O) in 'spacious hotels' where they remained until the network of semaphoric signals, placed across the desert to Suez, announced the arrival of their onward steamer to India.