THE BELL FROM SHELL MEX 2, Ex-HERA (1915), ACQUIRED BY THE EAGLE OIL COMPANY, 1926

cast in brass with plain shoulder, moulded rim and red-filled lettering inscribed over an arc as per title, iron clapper with sally -- 13 x 11½in. (33 x 29cm.)

Originally built for the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd of London in 1915 at Dordrecht, Holland as Hera, she was a 538 ton tanker which became the second in a line of eight 'Shell Mex'-named vessels bought by the Eagle Oil Company between 1915 and 1928 when they became Shell Mex & B.P. Ltd. The Shell Mex 2 was broken up by Thomas Ward in November 1936.