The Oriental
The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation company’s barquentine-rigged passenger liner Oriental,the second successive vessel of the Company to be so named,was built in Greenock by Caird & Co. in 1888. Sold in 1915 to the Hong Kong Steamship Co. and twice renamed,she acted as a relief ship in Yokohama following the devastating earthquake of 1st. of September 1923. She was then acquired by a Japanese owner and was broken up the next year.
This was painted by a Royal Navy purser, James Scott Maxwell(1845 to 1922)who is said to have carried out more than 1,100 ship portraits of every type and nationality,
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