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
Postcard of SS Persia at Aden, c. 1900
The door to the bullion room, salvaged and now located at Buckler's Hard.
Eleanor Thornton
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Eleanor Velasco Thornton was an English actress and artist's model.
SS Persia (1900)
…Lieutenant John Lionel Miller-Hallett of the Gurkha Rifles, and John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu. His secretary and mistress Eleanor Thornton, who many believe was the model for the Rolls-Royce "Spirit of Ecstasy" mascot by Charles Sykes, died. Also among the dead were Robert Ney McNeely…
Eleanor Thornton with the original Spirit of Ecstasy in 1911