Few ships have a past as glorious as the Evgenia P. The 1944-built vessel was baptised by fire, serving with Allied forces at Normandy on D-Day.

Seventy-five years on from 6 June 1944, the Evgenia P is suffering a miserable death as a slowly submerging rust bucket at Elefsina, a dreary Greek industrial backwater just west of Athens.

The Evgenia P is among dozens of vessels decaying in one of Europe’s biggest ship graveyards.