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Silver Plated 'HMT Lancashire' Troopship Vase. 1920s
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Good quality silver plated vase made as a souvenir of the Bibby Line troopship, "HMT Lancashire". Dating from the 1920s.
Attractive silver plated
vase with a milled, fluted rim and a weighted base. The reverse
is stamped, "EPNS" (electro-plated nickel silver). The front is
decorated with an applied enamelled brass badge showing the flag
of the Bibby Line surrounded by a belt bearing the ship's name,
"H.M.T. Lancashire" and
surmounted with the king's crown. Overall length:
92.5mm. Nice condition (very slight wear to plating,
commensurate with age).
The H.M.T. Lancashire (HMT = His Majesty's Troopship) was built during W.W.I. by by Harland & Wolff, Belfast for the Bibby Line and launched in January 1917. It was immediately taken over under the Liner Requisition Scheme for use as a troopship. In 1920 it was released back to the Bibby Line and refitted to passenger ship standards. It operated a passenger service between the U.K. and the Far East, but was also still used to convey troops. In 1930 it was permanently converted to a troopship and served as such throughout W.W.II., also acting as commodore ship for the D-Day landings on Juno Beach in June 1944. In peacetime the Lancashire continued to be used as troopship until 1956 when it was eventually scrapped at Barrow in Furness.
For more information on H.M.T. Lancashire, please click on the link below:
Inventory No. O-173
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