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.
John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, was a British Conservative politician, soldier and promoter of motoring. He was the father of Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd
SS Persia (1900)
…the passengers to survive were Colonel Charles Clive Bigham, son of Lord Mersey, 2nd 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…
The Lord Montagu of Beaulieu c. 1915
J. W. E. Montagu-Scott from Vanity Fair
Eleanor Velasco Thornton