SS Voltiare

[James Curry]

I was over in Liverpool yesterday at the Museum of Liverpool as they have a new exhibition on. More about that later perhaps in another thread.
When I was walking back to get the ferry I had time on my hands so went and had a look at the Memorials on the pier head. Over the years I have often done this and it never fails to move me. I thought there was to be a new memorial erected on the water front and funding was to be put in place for this. I am not trying to take anything away from what is there but!!!But looking at these memorials especially the one that was unvailed by the then dupty PM John Prescot it is an insult to those who gave everything. Even the one for seafarers from other nations. Looks like something a couple of out of work bricklayers knocked up.

The first photo shows the MN Memorial and in the same photo you can see the Memorial for foriegn seafarers.

In the second photo I spotted the Plaque for the HMS Voltaire which was the Lambert & Holt ship.

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Anyway back to the SS Voltiare I have a napkin ring from the SS Voltiare.SS Voltaire.jpg I am asumming it came from this ship built by Workman & Clarke Belfast 1923 and sunk by the German raider Thor in 1941.
So sometime between 1923/1941 some light fingered chap pinched this napkin ring.

[Doc Vernon]

This Thread has been closed for a while, untill i get a reply from the Poster who posted in reply about Clicking the Thanks etc. Do not know what it is all about!
Cheers

I note too that this Poster has only made 4 Posts since Joining in 2010 ???