A ship’s oval porthole from the MV Aureol, circa 1950.

With mirror plate .

65 x 56 cm.

From the ocean liner AUREOL built by Alexander Stephen & Sons, of Glasgow in 1951.

Maker’s marked: Utley Rainhill. (Thomas Utley Ltd. of Rainhill).

Aureol was a British ocean liner, also known as the “white Swan”, built by Alexander Stephen and Sons of Glasgow on the River Clyde for the Elder Dempster Lines of Liverpool, launched in 1951. 537 feet long Aureol had room for 329 passengers and carried 145 crew. In 1974 she was purchased by Greek oil tycoon Yiannis Latsis, and renamed Marianna VI after one of his daughters.