SS Persia (1900)
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Persia was a P&O passenger liner, built in 1900 by Caird & Company, Inverclyde, Greenock, Scotland. It was torpedoed and sunk without warning on 30 December 1915, by 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.
John Charles Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, was a British jurist and politician. After early success as a lawyer and a less successful spell as a politician, he was appointed a judge and worked in commercial law.
Bigham caricatured by Spy for Vanity Fair, 1898