TSS Cameronia 1911. Trinket tray. Calling card Tray. EPNS Antique. Beverley Plate.

An exceptional find! Sterling Plate footed trinket tray from the TSS Cameronia commissioned in 1919.

The T.S.S. Cameronia was used for Atlantic crossings at least twice by my family members. The Cameronia was built for the Anchor-Donaldson Line in 1919 by the William Beardmore & Co. Ltd. shipyard located on the River Clyde in Glasgow. The T.S.S. designation either refers to "turbine steam ship" or "twin screw steamer." The ship measured in at 16,365 gross tons, 552 feet long, with a beam of 70 feet. She was a one funnel, two masted, twin screw ship with a service speed of 16 knots. The ship carried a total of 1740 passengers in 265 1st class, 375 2nd class, and 1100 3rd class accommodations.

The Cameronia continued to make unescorted transatlantic crossings until she was requisioned as a troop ship by the British Admiralty in December 1940. In December of 1942, she was hit with an aerial torpedo, with the loss of 17 lives, but carried on to port for repairs. The ship woould later go on to become the largest troopship to take part in the Normandy Landings. After the end of WWII, the ship was laid up, but was brought out of retirement and converted for use as an Australian emigration ship

The tray measures 6 inches across and 3 1/2 inches wide.