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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Drinking measure used in lifeboat by survivors of S.S. TORTUGUA after being torpedoed in Mid-Atlantic in early 1918.
S.S. TORTUGA (4175 grt). Built 1900. Owned by Elders & Fyffes Ltd., Liverpool & Glasgow. 26 June 1918 torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic 205 miles N.W. 1/4 N from Eagle Island in position 55.50N by the German submarine U156 whilst on a voyage from Liverpool to Kingston, Jamaica in ballast. 12 lost. (Source: "British Merchant Ships Sunk by U Boats in World War One" by A.J. Tennent, Penzance, 1990. Page 75).
