P&O Company



   The initials P&O stand for the Peninsular &
   Oriental  Steam Navigation Company, and
   are among the most recognized in the world.

   With a name recalling Victorian and Imperial
   grandeur, P&O, which was incorporated in 1840
   and is the parent company of Princess Cruises,
   is numbered among the few British
   companies  bestowed with the honor of
   operating  under a Royal Charter.

   The company originated with a partnership formed in 1822 between
   a  Shetland-born former Royal navy clerk, Arthur Anderson, and
   Brodie McGhie  Willcox, a London shipbroker.
   Together, with their own fleet of small sailing ships and management of
   other  people's steamers, they built a business linking Britain with Spain
   and  Portugal, the Iberian Peninsula.
 

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