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RMS SCYTHIA, CIGARETTE CASE, WWII, TROOP TRANSPORT, LINER
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RMS SCYTHIA, CIGARETTE CASE, WWII, TROOP TRANSPORT, LINER:
$165.00

WONDERFUL TIN CIGARETTE CASE WITH A HISTORY. MARKED WITH RMS (royal merchant ship) SCYTHIA. 2 1/2\"X3 1.4\" (closed) MADE OF NON-METALLIC TIN, MACHINED FINISH. CONDITION IS GREAT FOR IS AGE, NO DENTS,NO DISCOLORIZATION, GOLD WASH INTERIOR. ATTACHED IS THE HISTORY OF THE SHIP WHICH BEGAN AS A LUXURY LINER ACTUALLY CARRYING PRINCESS ELIZABETH TO CANADA. CONVERTED TO AN ARMED TROOP CARRIER FOR WWII IN 1939, LATER USED TO TRANSPORT RETURNING SOLDIERS AND LATER WAR BRIDES. ATTACHED IS A HISTORY OF THIS REMARKABLE SHIP.History

Following heavy losses during theFirst World War, the Cunard Line embarked on an ambitious building programme. They decided to build \"intermediate\", 19,000-tonneships, rather than the massive liners they had previously employed. TheScythiawas the first ship in this new fleet, and construction began in 1919. TheScythiawas built for the services YorkandBoston, in theUnited States. A luxury liner designed to appeal to Americantourists, in the mid-1920s, she began sailing fromNew Yorkto theMediterranean.

TheScythiawas requisitioned at the end of 1939,[2]left Liverpool on 24 September 1940 with 48 children bound for Boston, sponsored by readers of theBoston Evening Transcriptnewspaper,[3]part of a wider British evacuation programme under theChildren\'s Overseas Reception Board.

She was used as a troop ship on 1 November 1940, and sailed from Liverpool to theMiddle Eastcarrying the1st King\'s Dragoon Guards. She then saw service carrying evacuees from Liverpool to New York. In 1942, theScythiatook part in theBritish Army landingsinNorth Africa. On 23 November she was struck by anaerial torpedo. The crew managed to get toharbouratAlgiers, and the ship suffered only fivecasualtiesout of a complement of 4,300 men.

TheScythiawas salvaged and taken to New York for repair in January 1943, and afterwards ferried American troops toEurope. At the end of the war, she took many American troops back from Europe, many of them accompanied by their youngbrides, before sailing toIndiato bring home British troops from the war in the East. She was also a warbride ship completing a number of [voyages][1]to take Canadian warbrides and their children from Liverpool toPier 21in Halifax in the early part of 1946. One of her last missions as a troop ship was to bring the 1st King\'s Dragoon Guards home to Liverpool, on 11 March 1948.

Later in 1948, theScythiawas handed to theInternational Refugee Organisationto takerefugeesfromEuropetoCanada. In 1950 she became a passenger ship again, sailing from Britain to Canada and later to New York. Her final route was around theNorth Sea. In 1958 theScythiawas delivered to the shipbreakers at Inverkeithing by Captain Geoffrey Marr, her final commander.


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