ULSTER QUEEN on sea trials Frame:none RANGITANE (1949) was the first

RANGITANE (1949) was the first northbound New Zealand Shipping Company ship to call at Papeete

She was the fastest ship on the Australian Mail run until P&O’s ‘Straths’ in 1931

Most notably a series of Boardroom friezes and ceiling panels for the company's original booking hall in Cockspur Street

ROYAL DAFFODIL (1939) was built for excursions in the Thames Estuary and the English Channel

Dinner in the bay of Biscay - 'A Western ocean swell'

ULSTER QUEEN on sea trials Frame:none RANGITANE (1949) was the firstULSTER QUEEN (1967) is seen here on sea trials. She was built for the Belfast Steamship Company Ltd and entered the P&O fleet with the acquisition of Coast Lines.