encyclopedia titanica

A telescope that belonged to the captain of the Titanic has been found lying in a dusty old attic The brass eyepiece kept in an old whisky bottle box bears the name Edward John Smith who was the master of the illfated ocean liner that sank in 1912 It also carries an engraved image of the Titanics sister ship RMS Olympic which Smith commanded for ten months The threefoot long spyglass was identified by auctioneer John Crane after he was invited to value artefacts belonging to a distant relative of Captain Smith