P&O Ship is named

This week P&O have finally announced the name of there newest, biggest ship after much anticipation. The ship is to be named Britannia  and will boost P&O Cruises capacity by 24 per cent.  With a length of 1,082 feet, it will carry over 3,600 passengers and at 141,000 tons will be 25,000 tons larger than P&O Cruises previous newest ship.

She is due to enter service in Spring 2015 and  the ship will be designed to both attract many thousands of newcomers and also resonate with existing passengers. It will offer the “best of the best”, combining favourite classic features of ships such as Oriana and Aurora, the wide choice and contemporary variety of Ventura and Azura as well as many yet to be announced new concepts in technology and entertainment. Dining options will reflect the inexorable rise of British cooking on the world stage. Following travelling trends and customer research she will also have more single cabins than any other cruise ship and many of these will have balconies.

This will not be the first ship to be named Britannia that is linked with the company.  The first entered service in 1835 for the General Steam Navigation Company, which went on to become The Peninsular Steam Navigation Company. The second, which entered service in 1887, was one of four ships ordered by the company to mark the Golden Jubilee of both Queen Victoria and P&O itself.