P&O Cruises
All information about P&O Cruises. 2023, 2024 and 2025 itinerary of company's ships. Technical data, rating and reviews of tourists. The actual location of the vessels.
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P&O Cruises is a British cruise line based at Carnival House in Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. It was originally a subsidiary of the shipping company P&O and was founded during a restructuring of P&O's operations in 1977. Along with P&O Cruises Australia, a sister company also founded by P&O, it has the oldest heritage of any cruise line in the world, dating to P&O's first passenger operations in 1837.
P&O Cruises was divested from P&O in 2000, becoming a subsidiary of P&O Princess Cruises, before coming under its current ownership in 2003, following a merger between P&O Princess Cruises and Carnival Corporation. In 2018, the company had a 2.4% market share of all cruise lines worldwide.
In 1834, Brodie McGhie Willcox, a ship broker from London, and Arthur Anderson, a sailor from the Shetland Islands, formed an association with Captain Richard Bourne, a steamship owner from Dublin.[8] In 1837, the trio won a contract and began transporting mail and passengers from England to the Iberian Peninsula, founding the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company. In 1840, the company merged with the Transatlantic Steam Ship Company and expanded their operations to the Orient, becoming the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). In 1844, P&O expanded its passenger operations from transportation to leisure cruising, operating sailings from England to the Mediterranean that were the first of their kind. By the mid-1900s, passenger shipping for the purposes of transportation was threatened by the increasing affordability of air travel. Consequently, in the 1970s, P&O dedicated its passenger operations entirely to leisure cruising and, in 1977, relisted its passenger ships under the new subsidiary P&O Cruises.
P&O Cruises ships
Year built: 2001
Length: 951 ft / 290 m
Passengers: 2636
Overall Rating: 2.88 (place: #232)
Year built: 2002
Length: 951 ft / 290 m
Passengers: 2596
Overall Rating: 3.13 (place: #205)
Year built: 1997
Length: 856 ft / 261 m
Passengers: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.79 (place: #239)
P&O Cruises in the News
- Mar 3, 2023
Nicole Scherzinger to serve as Godmother of P&O Cruises’ ship Arvia P&O Cruises named singer Nicole Scherzinger as the godmother to the line's newest ship Arvia.... - Jan 18, 2023
Carnival Corporation Expands SpaceX’s Starlink Wi-Fi Service Across Cruise Lines Carnival Corporation & plc has reached an agreement with SpaceX to allow for the Starlink Wi-Fi s... - Dec 30, 2022
Christmas ruined after a disastrous stay on P&O Cruises' Arvia ship P&O Cruises passengers left livid after their dream cruise was "ruined" by Christmas Day "dis... - Dec 15, 2022
23-year-old woman dead after falling overboard from P&O Cruises' ship Pacific Explorer The body of a woman who fell overboard from a P&O Cruises' ship off the South Australian coas... - Nov 24, 2022
First LNG delivered to P&O Cruises’ 2nd LNG-powered Excel-class ship Arvia The Dutch independent fuel supplier to the maritime industry, Titan, concluded the first LNG-liqu... - Aug 28, 2022
Meyer Werft floats out P&O Cruises' newest ship Arvia On Saturday, August 27, the new ship Arvia for the British company P&O Cruises left Meyer Wer... - Jan 12, 2022
Several Cruise Lines Adding Vaccine Booster Requirements Several cruise lines around the world have started requiring that passengers receive a coronaviru...