RMS 'Atlantis', Valetta, Malta mb-artist August_Edward candlestick

candlestick

Crypt under the Chapel of the Clothworkers' Almshouses

Plate taken from Famous Colonial Houses

Both of the women are wearing dresses with extremely full skirts and tight bodices

The work is inscribed with plate details and below 'English Long-eared Bat

RMS 'Atlantis', Valetta, Malta mb-artist August_Edward candlestickRMS 'Atlantis', Valetta, Malta, c1929 c1939. Previously a liner named 'Andes', the 'Atlantis' was converted into a cruise ship and renamed by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company in 1929. She later served as a hospital ship during World War II and ended her career transporting British emigrants to Australia and New Zealand before being scrapped in 1952.