PONL Heritage - Celebrating the past, staying in touch in the future...
PONL Heritage exists to preserve the history of P&O Nedlloyd and helps former employees around the world to stay in touch.
PONL Heritage
PONL Malaysia Reunion Dinner held in Kuala Lumpur on 13 May.
The day in 1970 that King Charles visited the Discovery Bay in Melbourne, Australia.
Sad news about the passing of former FMD Engineering Superintendent Jan Woodbridge.
QSM award for Ian Rankin Smith - Former OCL radio officer receives an award in the New Zealand New Year Honours List 2023.
"Fly a little, swim a little and boat a little" - Mid-Pacific rescue of Australian pilot Ray Clamback involving the P&O Nedlloyd Los Angeles.
A good time was had by all at the Birmingham reunion held in November.
The latest 'Captain Ken' articles that are available are:
Captain Ken #22 - A Love of Music has stories about meeting some of the music greats when visiting US ports in the 1950s and 60s, including Peggy Lee, Count Basie and Miles Davis.
Captain Ken #23 - Suez and French Foreign Legionnaires goes back to Ken Owen's days as a midshipman with Blue Funnel and a Suez Canal transit where he witnesses troops jumping overboard a passing ship.
Captain Ken #24 - Music Across the Oceans includes the story of one visit to Hong Kong on the Liverpool Bay when the ship's captain, chief officer and 2nd mate took to the stage at a local venue as 'the Liverpool Bay City Rollers' with Paul McCartney's cousin, the ship's chief steward, serving the drinks!
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SCARA
An update for SCARA members on recent articles on the PONLHeritage website
A members' summary of the Southampton reunion and the 35th anniversary of the locomotive naming in SCARA News and Reviews
More sad news, this time about the passing of Brian Small
Sad news about Richard Parker, ex-OCL and P&OCL FMD Personnel Department
Report on the Southampton 2023 reunion
Account of the 35th anniversary of a locomotive naming in Southampton in 1988
The current SCARA schedule of events has been circulated for 2023
Sad news about ex-Barking colleague Ted Tarrant
Last orders for Southampton Buffet Curry Lunch 13 April
Another good person lost... Roger Brown
The sad news continues... This time it is the passing of former senior executive Charles Rice
SCARA is an association for former staff members of P&O Nedlloyd and its predecessor companies. For information on how to join, please go to SCARA information.
More...
We have an interesting addition to our documentation section - A section from the Ocean staff magazine from June 1969 which has a profile of the (then) new Encounter Bay class container vessels.
We need YOUR content contributions!
Is there an event taking place that you think your former colleagues might want to attend? Is there a story linked to PONL that you would like to share? If there is anything that you think would be of interest if published here then please drop us a line using ponlheritage@gmail.com - Many thanks!
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Click on the link below to see the vidoes and other items that are currently available.
Where are they now?
Latest: Richard Smith, Doug Bannister, Brian Mullan & David Odell & Tomas Brat.
It would be great to get an update from as many former colleagues around the world as we can. Please visit the Where are they now? area of the site and consider sending in your own entry - Thank you!
Reunions
Have you recently held a reunion? If so then we would really like to be able to share that news in the Reunions section of this website. To see the reports filed in the past please go to the Reunion Reports page. You can then send in your own report to ponlheritage@gmail.com.
PONLHeritage Flickr group
250+ P&O Nedlloyd-related photographs on PONLHeritage's own Flickr group... Browse the collection and share your own images of reunions, ships, containers, offices, ports, etc.
The PONL Fleet
Immediately before the A.P. Moller-Maersk takeover the P&O Nedlloyd fleet consisted of more than 170 vessels.
Useful links
Links to various websites for information about our heritage, PONL-related social media, pension funds, retail, etc.