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.
Spirit of Ecstasy
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The Spirit of Ecstasy is the hood ornament of the Rolls-Royce cars. It is in the form of a woman leaning forwards with her arms outstretched behind and above her. Billowing cloth runs from her arms to
Spirit of Ecstasy on a Rolls-Royce Corniche
Eleanor Velasco Thornton posing next to Montagu's Silver Ghost, c. 1911. On the hood is seen the Spirit of Ecstasy.
Side view of The Spirit of Ecstasy (1972 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow)
Kneeling version of the Spirit of Ecstasy on a Phantom IV radiator