Cruise: P&O unveils Brittania’s Union Flag

Food is also top of PO’s priorities for the Britannia: to a sparkling
culinary line-up, that includes Marco Pierre White, Atul Kochhar, master
pâtissier Eric Lanlard and oenophile Olly Smith, PO is adding TV
chef James Martin, who is opening a sleeves-rolled-up Cookery Club on board,
where passengers will be able to learn some of Martin’s most famous dishes.

Designed for worldwide operation and weighing 141,000 tonnes, the £500 million
ship will be officially inaugurated in Southampton in March 2015 and will cruise
the Mediterranean, Northern
Europe and occasionally across the Atlantic and in the Caribbean
in winter, although itineraries are yet to be finalised.

^{The Britannia now feature’s the world largest Union Flag (photo: PO
Cruises)}

The ship will also have two distinctive blue funnels carrying an illuminated
rising sun motif which depicts the Oriental part of the Peninsular and
Oriental (PO) name on the company’s coat of arms.

All eight PO vessels are due to undergo a livery revamp as the line looks
to enhance to its British credentials.

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