The Blue Syncopaters of the Blue Funnel Line

I could totally wrong here but I’m going to assume that this bass drum was from a band, The Blue Syncopaters, that played aboard the ships of the Ocean Steam Ship Company, better known as The Blue Funnel Line. It’s dated as from the 1940s/1950s. Famously the Blue Funnel line, often with majority ethnic-Chinese crews, connected Liverpool with Shanghai and Hong Kong