A SHIP in a bottle made by a German prisoner of war is now on display at a war museum.
The pint-sized bottle containing the ship bears a small swastika. It was made during the Second World War by a German sea captain who was being held in York.
He swapped the ship with his guard, who did not smoke, in return for his tobacco ration. It is thought the captain was later transferred to Liverpool and was on his way to a prisoner of war camp in Canada when the ship he was travelling on was attacked and sunk. The guard's son has donated the exhibit to Eden Camp, near Malton.
Museum archivist Peter Cornick said: "We have quite a number of bits and pieces that were made by prisoners of war."
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