encyclopedia titanica

A federal judge on Monday granted a company title to fine china ship fittings and other artifacts worth about 110 million that it recovered from the Titanic in a halfdozen perilous expeditions to the famous shipwreck US District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith in Norfolk issued the order a little over a year after ruling that RMS Titanic was entitled to full compensation for the roughly 5900 artifacts In her August 2010 ruling Smith postponed deciding whether to give RMS title to the artifacts or sell them and turn the proceeds over to the company