Eleanor Thornton
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Eleanor Velasco Thornton was an English actress and artist's model.
Eleanor Thornton with the original Spirit of Ecstasy in 1911
SS Persia (1900)
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Persia was a Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner, built in 1900 by Caird & Company, Greenock, Scotland. It was torpedoed and sunk without warning on 30 December 1915, by Ger
Eleanor Thornton
…manufactured by Rolls-Royce, as well as a precursor sculpture, The Whisperer. She drowned with hundreds of other passengers on 30 December 1915 when the SS Persia, on which she was travelling with Montagu through the Mediterranean on the way to India, was torpedoed without warning by the German U-boat U-38…
Postcard of SS Persia at Aden, c. 1900
The door to the bullion room, salvaged and now located at Buckler's Hard.