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Welcome to our website paying tribute to the famous S/S Chusan. She was a smaller version of the Himalaya and was designed as the principal element in the postwar regeneration of the Indian and Far East service. Indeed in some ways she was a long overdue replacement for the celebrated Viceroy of India that had been tragically lost during the Second World War. Indeed like her celebrated predecessor she introduced superior standards on the route to the Orient and the Far East.

She entered service in 1950 with a voyage from London to Bombay. But thereafter she continued to China and the Far East working in partnership with the Corfu, Carthage and Canton. In November 1950 she had the honour of reinstating P&O's service to Japan and made the first postwar call at Yokohama. In the early 1960s the Chusan was taken off the Far East service and operated cruises before being transferred to a new regular service linking Australia and Yokohama with a call at Hong Kong. In 1970 the Chusan had the honour of sailing the final London to India service leaving London on the 15th Sep 1970, thus ending P&O's long association with India. The Chusan was retired from service in 1973 and sold for scrapping.

This website aims to record the history of this famous British ocean liner and act as a virtual home to honour and commemorate this fine ship. We hope you enjoy this website and when you leave we hope you will visit again soon


   

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Her Regular Service Route: England to India, China and the Far East

 London (Tilbury Docks) – Southampton - Gibraltar – Marseille (UK bound only) – Naples – Port Said – Suez Canal – Aden – Bombay - Colombo - Penang - Singapore - Hong Kong - Shanghai - Kobe - Yokohama.

THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

(P&O LINE)

This Website is based on content from the SS Maritime website (www.ssmaritime.com) with the kind permission of Reuben Goossens

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