SS Ardeola Yeoward Line Ship Menu 1920 Post WW1 Soldier Cover

CHAU1959 Antique 1920 post wartime Yeoward Line ship menu for the SS Ardeola showing a soldier on the front below a battle poem by Burns - Middle pages show the full menu dated Wednesday 25th February 1925 - the cover is aged darkened (just the cover) but with handling too my grading is only fair however a very rare souvenir.  Examining both the date of the menu and the history notes below this would indicate this one of the Ardeola's first voyages after the ship being bought by Yeoward Lines in 1920.

Ardeola was a smart English passenger ship, of a customary three-masted profile, with the funnel mounted slightly aft, a layout typical of the Yeoward Line. She was built by the Caledon Shipbuilding Co., Dundee, in 1912, weighing 2609 gross tons and powered by a single triple-expansion steam engine.Built originally for the Ardeola Steam Ship Co., she was designed to carry around 80 first class passengers, but was later used as a cargo vessel transporting fruit on the Liverpool-Lisbon-Casablanca-Madeira-Canary Islands run.  In 1920, the Yeoward Line purchased her; but, 15 years later, during the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, she was requisitioned as a stores ship based at Aden. She was returned to the owners in 1936, by which time her passenger certificate had been cancelled.