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Michael Cundiff
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Username: robin
Post Number: 376
Registered: 1-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 9:24 pm: | 
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Hello:
Myself a collector of newspaper headlines and also owing to the recent COLUMBIA disaster, this afternoon I had a look and see at my S.F. CHRONICLE dated Mon., April 13. 1981 which headlined in bold letters SHUTTLE IN ORBIT (The maiden voyage of the shuttle COLUMBIA). Among the two seperate columns showing concern over the loss of thermal tiles, I was taken aback by a column I had missed previously..."Unique Relic of Titanic Stolen".
It read as follows:
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The only piece of china to have been removed from the Titanic before the liner sank in the Atlantic after striking an iceberg in 1912 was stolen during the weekend from an annual party to remember the disaster.
Charles Sachs, president of the Oceanic Navigation research Society, said the small saucer, valued at about $20,000, was taken from a glass display case Saturday night at the Variety Art Theatre.
Sachs said the 4-inch demitase sacucer was recovered from the Titanic by a steward who was setting breakfast tables in the first-class dining salon when the Titanic hit the iceberg on April 14, 1912.
The "unsinkable" ocean liner sank in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m. the next day, killing 1503 of those aboard.
Sachs said the saucer was gift to Barry Roger Davis, membership chairman of the society, from his parents. A $500.00 reward has been offered for it's return.
A police spokesman said investigators have the serial number of the piece of rare china and are investigating it's loss as a grand theft.
UNITED PRESS
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It is interesting that I missed the article during it's initial run...as I was following closely the '80/'81 endeavor of "Cadiallac Jack" Grimm to discover the wreck of the Titanic.
Michael A. Cundiff
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Kyrila Scully
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Username: childstar413
Post Number: 1076
Registered: 4-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 1:15 am: |
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Wow! How interesting that the Columbia's "maiden voyage" was April 13, and Titanic was also on her maiden voyage on that date. My own "maiden voyage" began on that date in 1954.
Kyrila |
