Windrush

While at Uni, J purchased this metal box off Gumtree.  It's been sat in a spare room for the last year or two since graduation.

It wasn't until clearing the room that anyone had attempted to read the very faded lettering on the lid.

Finding "Empire Windrush" on the right hand side was unexpected to say the least.

From wikipedia..
  During World War II [the ship] was operated by the German navy as a troopship. At the end of the war, she was taken by the British Government as a prize of war and renamed the Empire Windrush. In British service, she continued to be used as a troopship until March 1954, when the vessel caught fire and sank.


  In 1948, Empire Windrush brought one of the first large groups of postwar West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom.