Tea-plate from the Lusitania

"My father and his friends who were medical students embalming the bodies of the people after they were washed up. He told the story of a woman who was washed up with a baby in her arms, both long dead, and they couldn't pry the baby from the mother's arms so they were both embalmed together. They had to get a special coffin made then, my father told us. The plate must have been washed up at some stage in the work. Someone made a hanging for it, and it was hanging on our wall until we found out what it was. I've been looking at it since I was four or five where it was on the wall. It was in the house the whole time since I was born and we we warned not to go near it. White Star Line, Made in Liverpool on the back."