The first P. & O. voyage to the East / by Wm. Twynam.

An account of the steamship Hindoostan, of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O), which left Southampton on 24 September 1842, under the command of Captain Robert Moresby, on her way to Calcutta to open the Indian Mail Service. This pamphlet relates the circumstances which led to the opening of the service. There are details of the passengers on board, a list of officers and a description of the voyage. The voyage took ninety-one days from Southampton to Calcutta, of which sixty days were under steam. The Hindoostan's last voyage was in 1859 at the end of the Indian Mutiny, when she was commissioned as an extra ship to take officers and others to Suez.