Otranto Pipe Rack

Wooden pipe rack made from wood from an HMS Otranto lifeboat and decorated with the ship's name, flags and a minature lifeboat. During a severe storm off the Isle of Islay in late 1918, the HMS Otranto accidentally collided with another troop ship, HMS Kashmir (1915) and was forced ashore by the storm, killing 470 passengers, mainly American soldiers, and crewmen. By the following morning, the lin…