Vintage S S Iberia Ashtray, Trinket Dish, Nautical, Passenger / Ocean Liner, Helm - Ships Wheel 

Cast / turned aluminium with enamel 'S S Iberia' central embedded badge.

Dated around 1950 - 60's

15cm max diameter, 2cm height approx 

Good used condition for age, with some wear, marks and tarnishing. 

SS Iberia was an ocean liner completed in 1954 for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company(P&O). Along with her fleetmates Himalaya, Arcadia and Chusan, Iberia mainly provided passenger service between the United Kingdom and Australasia.

Iberia was constructed at the Belfast shipyard of Harland and Wolff and originally provided service between Londonand Sydney via the Suez Canal. Later, Iberia went on to carry passengers across the Pacific Ocean, as far as San Francisco and back to the UK via the Panama Canal. Iberia eventually ran into numerous problems, including collisions with other ships, frequent machinery breakdowns, and fuel leaks. For this reason, Iberia was taken out of service in 1972, a full year before her sister ships were decommissioned; all of them were scrapped at a breaker in southern Taiwan.