Lot 132: SOUVINER WOODEN DISH FROM THE CUNARD LINE VESSEL THE RMS LACONIA

Dating from the 1930’s and is a wooden "wheel shaped’ dish from the Cunard Line vessel the Laconia. Tragically sunk in 1942 by a German U-Boat, this is a fondly remembered ship. The wooden dish has a felt base shows in the centre the company emblem and is in a fairly good condition for an old item and is 4½" (12cm) in size.

[The second RMS Laconia was a Cunard ocean liner, built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson as a successor of the 1911-1917 Laconia. The new ship was launched on 9 April 1921, and made her maiden voyage on 25 May 1922 from Southampton to New York. At the outbreak of World War II she was converted into an Armed Merchant Cruiser, and subsequently a troopship. Like her predecessor, sunk during the First World War, this Laconia was also destroyed by a German submarine. Some estimates of the death toll have suggested that over 1,649 people were killed when the Laconia sank.]