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United Press International	TITANIC LETTERS UP FOR AUCTION Two rare letters from first-class passengers aboard the doomed British ocean liner Titanic will hit the auction block next month, an auction house said Tuesday.The letters on White Star Lines stationery are expected to fetch $10,000-$20,000 each when auctioned Jan. 16 at Spink Smythe in New York. There also will be online bidding, the auction house said in a news release....	2nd January 2009
The Argus	TITANIC WATCH WITHDRAWN FROM AUCTION A collector who was selling a pocket watch found on the frozen body of the last victim to be recovered from the Titanic had a change of heart and cancelled the auction.The watch, which had belonged to Dumfries-born steward Thomas Mullin, was put up for sale on internet auction site eBay on March 13 with a starting bid of only $100 (£50)....	28th March 2008
Small world News Service	TITANIC POSTER FETCHES £60000 AT AUCTION A poster of the Titanic has sold at auction for a staggering £60000 after a fierce battle by collectors at auction....	30th October 2010
owensoundsuntimes.com	AUCTION OF TITANIC ARTIFACTS SEEMS 'FISHY' SAYS COLLECTOR STEVE SANTINI Santini owns two of what he believes are only about a dozen deck chairs plucked from the ocean. Santini said he hopes the artifacts at auction will be re-assembled into a larger, permanent exhibit. But Santini said he wonders if it may just be a big publicity stunt. "I'm not entirely sure they're for sale."...	9th January 2012
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC RELICS UP FOR AUCTION - BBC NEWS Almost 100 years after the Titanic ocean liner was sunk by an iceberg on her maiden voyage to New York, artefacts retrieved from the ship are about to go on auction....	6th January 2012
BBC News	TITANIC POSTCARD AND BROCHURE UP FOR AUCTION A postcard written on the Titanic by a passenger in third class who died along with nine members of her family is expected to fetch up to £15000 at auction this weekend....	30th October 2010
feedsportal.com	TITANIC ARTEFACTS TO GO UP FOR AUCTION - TELEGRAPH.CO.UK The owner of the largest trove of artefacts salvaged from the Titanic is putting the vast collection up for auction as a single lot in 2012, the 100th anniversary of the world's most famous shipwreck. ...	29th December 2011
BBC News	TITANIC WATCH UP FOR WEB AUCTION A pocket watch found on the body of the last victim of the Titanic to be recovered has been put up for sale.The item, which belonged to Dumfries-born steward Thomas Mullin, hopes to attract bidders on the internet auction website eBay....	19th March 2008
BBC News	NOMADIC TO RETURN TO BELFAST The SS Nomadic, the last of the White Star ships and a vital link to the Titanic story, is returning to Belfast.The Northern Ireland Office bought the ship at an auction in France for 250,000 euros.Social Development Minister David Hanson said his department purchased the Nomadic at auction in Paris. ...	26th January 2006
nationalpost.com	STEALING THE TITANIC: ARTIFACTS AUCTION DRAWS ACCUSATIONS OF GRAVE ROBBERY On April 15, on the 100th anniversary of the RMS Titanic’s sinking, an auction house in New York will sell off $185-million-worth of items salvaged from the wreck: Eye-glasses, antique currency, jewellery, clothing and — the pièce de resistance — a 17-tonne section of the hull ripped clean in the ship’s final violent moments. In Halifax, the burial place of 150 Titanic victims, news of the auction prompted disgust. “We’re into preserving and documenting — not into pillaging,” Lynn-Marie Richard, registrar for the city’s Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, told The Chronicle Herald. The man who located the Titanic sitting upright at the bottom of the Atlantic would agree....	28th January 2012
Romsey Advertiser	TITANIC MEMORABILIA FROM THE GRAPES UP FOR AUCTION A FORMER Southampton pub's collection of Titanic memorabilia is to go under the hammer at a Dorset auction house today.The Grapes in Oxford Street was steeped in Titanic folklore and, according to city legend, was where six lucky crew were drinking when they forgot the time and missed the liner's doomed maiden sailing. ...	2nd March 2009
CCTV	BIDDERS QUEUE FOR "TITANIC" DECK LOG elics of a storied disaster at sea are up for auction in London. At Christie's Auction House, Thursday, items related to the sinking of the "unsinkable" liner R.M.S. Titanic go on the block.Christie's is previewing 18 items of personal effects from the R.M.S. Titanic disaster, close to a century ago. ...	28th June 2007
bbc.co.uk	HISTORIC TITANIC COMPANY MINUTE BOOK BOUGHT AT AUCTION BY H&W - BBC NEWS The Belfast shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff, which built the Titanic, has bought back its original Minute Book for an undisclosed sum. The item was just one lot that went under the hammer at an auction of rare books and historical memorabilia in Dublin this afternoon. ...	14th December 2011
The Guardian	TITANIC LETTER EXPECTED TO FETCH £25,000 AT AUCTION A rare letter that gives an insight into the cosseted life first class passengers enjoyed on board the Titanic is expected to fetch up to £25,000 at auction. The letter, from perfumer Adolphe Saafeld to his "wifey", as he calls her, describes fine lunches, long dinners, satisfying cigars and strolls around the ill-fated liner....	30th March 2010
Henry Aldridge and Son	RMS TITANIC AUCTION ANNOUNCED FOR APRIL 2010 Titanic and White Star Line specialists Henry Aldrige and Son have announced their next auction of Titanic, White Star Line and Ocean Liner Memorabilia. Selected lots will be available to view at the Titanic Made in Belfast Exhibition in Belfast April 3rd to April 11th....	16th March 2010
Swann galleries	AUCTION WILL FEATURE OCEAN LINER AND AVIATION GEMS On Thursday, March 4, Swann Galleries will auction two significant private collections devoted to the golden age of ocean liner travel: The Christopher Bou Collection of Ocean Liner & Aviation Memorabilia and The Chase Collection of Ocean Liner Memorabillia...	25th February 2010
irishtimes.com	TITANIC FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH FETCHES €2200 AT AUCTION - IRISH TIMES A PHOTOGRAPH of a Co Westmeath woman and her five sons who perished in the Titanic disaster was sold at auction in Dublin yesterday for €2,200. Margaret Rice (39), a widow, and her sons Albert (10), George (8), Eric (7), Arthur (4) and Eugene (2), from Athlone, all died when the ship sank on April 15th, 1912. The photograph was sold by two of her descendants and was bought by a telephone bidder....	15th December 2011
	PORTRAIT OF ROSA ABBOTT Portrait of Rosa Abbott Photograph of Titanic survivor Rhoda Abbott to be sold at auction in Devizes in April. ...	19th February 2010
Roanoke Times	VESTED IN THE TITANIC After Christie's got $119,000 for a Titanic life jacket at an auction in London last year, Gregg Dietrich was not surprised that his phone kept ringing with offers of other items from the ill-fated ship."When we sell one ... more seem to come out of the woodwork," said Dietrich, who heads the maritime (or "ocean liner") division of the auction house here. "We're been inundated with Titanic offers."The problem was, many of the calls came from people like the man who was certain he had all sorts of valuable Titanic keepsakes: a first-class passenger list, a menu from its Cafe Parisienne, even a passenger ticket that would have been the first ever auctioned.Except it wasn't....	7th July 2008
NY Daily News (4/20/08	TITANIC TICKET MAKES WAVES A ticket for the Titanic's ill-fated voyage belonging to the last survivor with memories of the disaster sold for $65,772 at a British auction. Lillian Asplund who died in 2006 at the age of 99 was just five years old when the Titanic hit an iceber and sank during her maiden voyage from England to New York. Her father and three siblings were among the 1500 people who died. Asplund was the last American survivor of the disaster and the last with memories of it. Asplund's ticket--bought by a collector from the United States--was among 364 items sold at auction....	20th April 2008
	AUSTIN PARTNER [This item will be sold by Aldridges at their 18th September auction in Devizes.]...
Ulster Star	AUCTION OF TITANIC FURNITURE PIECE Connection to the Titanic will create a buzz when it goes under the hammer......	22nd May 2009
The Sun	TITANIC IS A ¢&EURO;ËœBEAUTIFUL SIGHT' THE last written description of the Titanic before it sank is up for auction this week....	15th April 2008
The Times	AUCTION OF OLYMPIC FITTINGS SALE CONCLUDED The sale at Jarrow of the fittings of the Olympic concluded today, which was the tenth day, and the last lot offered was No.4,456.. The total realized was not announced, and several lots were not sold. On some days during ...	19th November 1935
BBC News	TITANIC LETTER SELLS FOR A RECORD Â£55,000 A letter from a first-class passenger on board the ill-fated Titanic has been sold at auction for Â£55,000....	20th April 2010
Irish Independent	IRISH TITANIC LETTER UP FOR AUCTION A LETTER on ship's stationery, written by Ireland's only first-class passenger on the Titanic, is expected to fetch more than €50,000 when it is auctioned next month....	21st August 2006
BBC News	TITANIC LIFE VEST FETCHES £43,000 One of the Titanic's few remaining lifejackets has been sold to a private collector for £43,000 ($80,000). The auction at Devizes in Wiltshire also featured dozens of letters sent by some of the 1,500 people who died when the ship sank in the Atlantic in 1912. ...	1st October 2006
BBC News	TITANIC KEY IS SOLD FOR £90,000 A tiny key that might have helped prevent the Belfast-built Titanic sinking has fetched £90,000 at auction. The key, with the tag "Crows Nest Telephone Titanic" opened the binoculars store, but was not on the ship when it sailed from Southampton. ...	23rd September 2007
Daily Echo	TITANIC AUCTION SPARKS INTERNATIONAL INTEREST AMONG COLLECTORS An international bidding war is expected to break out when rare memorabilia from the ill-fated Southampton liner Titanic goes under the auctioneers hammer in the city....	6th November 2010
Mirror.co.uk	£22K TALE OF TITANIC SURVIVOR A Titanic survivor's letter giving her account of the disaster has sold for £22,000 at auction.The writer tells how her party was last off the doomed liner and nearly froze to death in a lifeboat before being rescued....	1st October 2007
Telegraph.co.uk	RUSTY KEY TO FETCH £50,000 AT TITANIC AUCTION A rusty key, which enabled the Titanic's crew to try to rescue hundreds of mail bags from the sinking ship, is expected to fetch more than £50,000 at an upcoming auction.The key was for the door of a staff stairwell which was opened so that the crew could start unloading the mail from the bowels of the ship....	11th April 2009
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Glasgow Daily Record	TITANIC MAIL SALE A mail wrapper from the Titanic found in a pouch strapped to the body of postal clerk Oscar Woody, who died in the 1912 disaster, fetched £6580 at a Spink's auction in London yesterday....	7th December 2006
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC SOS SHIP ARTEFACTS FOR SALE Artefacts from the ship which failed to answer a call for help from the Titanic go up for auction in Northern Ireland next month....	19th November 2010
dailyindia.com	HOLY GRAIL OF TITANIC MEMORABILIA MAY FETCH £150K AT AUCTION A 32-feet-long diagram that was used by witnesses and experts to establish the cause of the Titanic tragedy is all set to go under the hammer later this month and might fetch 150000 pounds.The huge drawing is headed 'SS "TITANIC. ......	20th May 2011
	TITANIC SURVIVOR SINKS IN DEBT Millvina Dean is the last living survivor of the Titanic and, at 96 years old, she has been forced to auction off her valuable Titanic souvenirs to pay for her nursing home. Mark Phillips reports. ...
southportvisiter.co.uk	TITANIC CIGAR BOX GOES FOR £25000 A CIGAR box that once belonged to the ill-fated captain of the Titanic raised Â£25000 at auction. The antique walnut humidor was found earlier this month in Southport, with the owner unaware of its historical significance. ...	19th May 2011
AFP	TITANIC SURVIVOR'S TALE OF DISASTER SOLD AT AUCTION An account of the sinking of the Titanic written by a survivor who was secretary to a controversial aristocrat has sold for 20000 pounds 23000 euros 32000 dollars auctioneers said on Sunday....	30th October 2010
gazetteandherald.co.uk	IT'S A TITANIC PRICE AT DEVIZES dA plan of the doomed liner Titanic sold for £220000 at a Devizes auction on Saturday - twice its estimate. The huge drawing, which was used at the public inquiry into the 1912 sinking of the 'unsinkable' liner, was expected to fetch ......	2nd June 2011
BBC Northern Ireland	TITANIC SHOE BOX SALE HITS £100,000 A treasure store of Titanic memorabilia, kept in a shoe box by a woman who survived the 1912 disaster, has sold at auction for £100,000.Among Lillian Asplund's shoe box treasures was one of the last four remaining tickets for the Titanic's doomed maiden voyage. ...	20th April 2008
Irish Independent	TITANIC NO LONGER SHAMEFUL SUBJECT IN CITY OF ITS BIRTH A survivor's account of the night Titanic went down with 1520 souls was sold earlier this month for stg£20000 while at the same UK auction a poster showing the doomed White Star liner and its sister vessel RMS Olympic was knocked down at £69000 to a buyer from Eastern Europe....	2nd November 2010
BBC News	TITANIC LETTER COULD FETCH £9,000 A letter penned by a passenger of the doomed Titanic which sank in 1912, killing 1,522 people on board, is expected to raise £9,000 at auction.Charles Jones, who worked for the Colgate firm in New York, was returning to the US after a UK trip to buy sheep from Dorset farmer James Foot....	18th March 2008
The Guardian	TITANIC BROCHURE EXPECTED TO FETCH Â£15,000 AT AUCTION The most poignant view in the 1911 brochure boasting of the splendour of the Titanic is not the sketch of the bronze, balustraded grand staircase, the verandah cafe with its colonial rattan armchairs, the smoking room, the swimming pool or the opulent dining rooms....	15th April 2010
BBC News	TITANIC SURVIVOR SELLS MEMENTOES The last remaining survivor of the Titanic has sold her mementoes for more than £30,000 at a Wiltshire auction. Millvina Dean sold a suitcase full of clothes, which had been given to her by the people of New York after she was rescued as a baby....	20th October 2008
BBC News	TITANIC SURVIVOR SELLS MEMENTOES The last remaining survivor of the Titanic has sold her mementoes for more than £30,000 at a Wiltshire auction. Millvina Dean sold a suitcase full of clothes, which had been given to her by the people of New York after she was rescued as a baby....	20th October 2008
liverpoolecho.co.uk	TELESCOPE BELONGING TO TITANIC CAPTAIN FAILS TO SELL - LIVERPOOL ECHO Chief among the items going under the hammer at the Cato Crane auction house was a telescope which belonged to the captain of the Titanic, Edward Smith. He used it while serving on board the sister ship to the Titanic, ......	29th July 2011
herald.ie	TITANIC SISTER SHIP MARKS 100 YEARS The ship was launched from Hamilton Dock on April 25, 1911. It was luxuriously equipped and was the tender ship for the Olympic class transatlantic liners. In January 2006, the Department for Social Development purchased the SS Nomadic at a Paris auction. The vessel was brought back to it's home city and it is being restored to its former glory in Hamilton Dock, Belfast....	25th April 2011
New York Times	TITANIC WRECK ECHO AT HOE LIBRARY SALE Harry E. Widener, on Sunk Liner, Expected to Attend Part III. Sessions --- SAW BOOKS BEFORE SAILING --- Caxton "Golden Legend" Bring $3,100---$1,400 Paid for Christopher Columbus's "Epistola” --- "The Golden ...	17th April 1912
Westmorland Gazette	TITANIC ARTEFACTS SET TO RAISE THOUSANDS A RARE first-hand account of the Titanic tragedy written by the great-uncle of a South Lakeland resident is expected to fetch more than £15,000 when it is sold at auction.Having always been interested in the voyage of the ill-fated vessel, Joyce Ireland from Burneside read with interest an article previewing the sale of Titanic memorabilia at Sotheby's in London....	2nd December 2008
yourlocalguardian.co.uk	POSTCARD FROM THORNTON HEATH MAN ON TITANIC UP FOR SALE A postcard sent from a passenger on the ill-fated Titanic liner is set to fetch up to £4,000 at auction. Andrew Johnston, who lived with his family in Thornton Heath, sent the postcard to his dad from the ship as it left Queenstown, now Cobh in Cork, Ireland. ...	11th January 2012
Southern Daily Echo	WORLDWIDE SUPPORT FOR TITANIC SURVIVOR PEOPLE from all over the world have rallied behind the last remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster after it was revealed that she is selling her mementoes to pay her nursing home fees. Yesterday the Daily Echo told how Millvina Dean hopes to raise more than £3,000 from the auction of her treasured possessions, including a 100-year-old suitcase that was given to her family when they arrived in the US after being rescued....	20th October 2008
Southern Daily Echo	WORLDWIDE SUPPORT FOR TITANIC SURVIVOR PEOPLE from all over the world have rallied behind the last remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster after it was revealed that she is selling her mementoes to pay her nursing home fees. Yesterday the Daily Echo told how Millvina Dean hopes to raise more than £3,000 from the auction of her treasured possessions, including a 100-year-old suitcase that was given to her family when they arrived in the US after being rescued....	20th October 2008
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC SALE SURVIVOR SELLS MEMORABILIA Titanic survivor Millvina Dean is to put up more of her family memorabilia for auction to raise money to pay for her nursing home fees. In an interview with Ronan Corrigan from the Nomadic Charitable Trust, the 96-year-old woman revealed that she has another 17 items available to put on the market and will be auctioning some of them at Devizes in Southampton next month....	6th February 2009
St. Catharines Standard	TITANIC PIECES SOLD TO BIDDER IN FLORIDA Pieces of an ill-fated ship sold by a St. Catharines auctioneer will float down to Florida. Sold during the Saturday auction were a tiny wooden box and silver pin tray which were once the property of two women who escaped the sinking Titanic in 1912....	23rd November 2010
BBC News	TITANIC LIFE VEST TO MAKE $80,000 A life-jacket from the ill-fated Titanic could make $80,000 (£40,570) when it goes up for auction next month. The life-preserver was found during the initial recovery operation after the liner struck an iceberg and sank in 1912. The item is one of several linked to the Titanic which are being sold off by Christie's in Manhattan, New York....	30th May 2008
Liverpool Echo	TITANIC STEWARD'S MEDAL AUCTION A RARE collection of medals which belonged to a Liverpool steward who helped launch lifeboats on the stricken Titanic is up for sale.The four World War I medals belonged to first class steward Ernest Wheelton who survived the disaster which claimed the lives of 1,500 passengers....	11th October 2007
ARTINFO	ARTWORK SALE TO FUND TITANIC MUSEUM OPPOSED IN ENGLAND SOUTHAMPTON, Englandâ€” The Southampton City Councilâ€™s plans to auction off two artworks to help fund a museum dedicated to the Titanic is drawing art world opposition, with some critics fearing the precedent the sale might set....
CNN	LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR SELLING MEMENTOS TO PAY BILLS LONDON, England (CNN) -- The last survivor of the Titanic, 97-year-old Millvina Dean, is auctioning off her remaining mementos of the doomed ship to pay nursing home bills.The auction, which is expected to raise up to $50,000 for her, is set to take place Saturday near her home in England....	22nd April 2009
Discovery Channel News	TITANIC LETTER RECOUNTS HORROR The darkness and terror on the night the Titanic sank are described in a letter, released yesterday, written by survivor Laura Mabel Francatelli shortly after the disaster.The letter, along with her official affidavit during a subsequent legal inquiry and her life preserver, will be sold at a Christie's auction on May 16. The life preserver was signed by men and women aboard the ...	13th April 2007
liveauctioneers.com	HERITAGE PULLS 3 TITANIC ITEMS FROM AUCTION Heritage pulls 3 Titanic items from auctionAuction Central NewsThe items, commonly called "rusticles," are biological formations that developed over the decades on wreckage of the RMS Titanic, but were not originally part of the ship. Heritage is returning the lots to the consignor, Charles Pellegrino. ......	18th May 2011
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC ARTWORK TO HELP WORLD'S POOR A painting of the Titanic could raise £10,000 for charity at auction, the artist who created it said today. Dozens of old cheques issued by the Belfast shipyard where the famous vessel was built have been used to create the image by Rita Duffy, who hopes to raise money for the poor in sub-Saharan Africa. The Titanic, which was dubbed unsinkable before it hit an iceberg and foundered in the north Atlantic in April 1912, is at the centre of plans to rejuvenate a large part of the city's docklands. ...	26th April 2009
Yorkshire Post	TITANIC MEMORABILIA FETCH &POUND;300,000 A bag belonging to the last living Titanic survivor and flask that once contained hot milk for lifeboat passengers were among memorabilia from the disaster which have fetched about £300,000 at auction. Millvina Dean, 97, of Southampton, who was lowered from the deck of the sinking ship as a baby in 1912, put her treasured items up for sale to help pay her nursing home fees....	25th April 2009
	LETTER TO HIS MOTHER Mrs. Thomas Mudd, The Street, Hunting Field, Halesworth, Suffolk. Dear Mother, Arrived at Southampton safe - The Titanic is a splendid boat and you hardly know you are moving. Will write more fully later Your loving Son Tom. PS ...	1912
wday.com	TITANIC AUCTION NETS $100570 - WDAY A collection of more than 100 items of Titanic memorabilia, including a rare letter written on the ship's stationery the day it sailed on its first and last voyage, sold for $100,570 Friday night. The collection, which had been estimated to sell for $50,000 to $75,000, was one of seven lots of Titanic material sold by Philip Weiss Auctions in Oceanside. It was purchased by a private collector who did not want to be identified. The price includes a 13 percent buyer's premium....	22nd October 2011
Canada.com	TITANIC LIFE JACKET SELLS IN NEW YORK FOR $68,500 An unused life jacket from the doomed Titanic ship sold for $68,500 in New York on Wednesday, Christie's auction house said.The cork-filled life preserver - still largely intact, but stained and torn in parts - was thought to have been found by farmer John James Dunbar on the Halifax shoreline after the passenger ship sank off Newfoundland in April, 1912....	27th June 2008
irishtimes.com	POIGNANT MEMENTO: FAMILY DIED IN 'TITANIC' DISASTER - IRISH TIMES A REMARKABLE photograph of a widowed Irish mother and her five young sons who perished in the Titanic disaster is to be sold at auction next month. Margaret Rice (39), a widow, and her sons Albert (10), George (8), Eric (7), Arthur (4) and Eugene (2), who lived in Athlone, Co Westmeath, all died when the infamous ship sank in the north Atlantic in April 1912....	21st November 2011
Scotsman	IN HIS OWN WORDS MAN WHO SURVIVED TITANIC AND SINKING OF HER SISTER SHIP LETTERS written by a seaman who survived the sinking of the Titanic and its sister ship the Britannic four years later only to die in a German torpedo attack are expected to raise up to £20,000 at auction.Archie Jewell was on board the Titanic on the night of 14 April, 1912, and his writings describe the horror of watching the great ship sink and hearing the cries of passengers drowning in the icy seas....	23rd November 2008
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC PLAN SELLS FOR £30000 - BBC NEWS A rare Titanic first class deck plan belonging to a wealthy New York couple who drowned in the tragedy has sold at auction for £30,000. The deck plans were handed to the 324 first class passengers as they boarded the RMS Titanic at Southampton in 1912 to help them navigate the liner. Ida and Isidor Straus died side-by-side after Mrs Straus refused a place on a lifeboat to remain with her husband. ...	31st October 2011
bizjournals.com	TITANIC ARTIFACTS TO BE AUCTIONED - ATLANTA BUSINESS CHRONICLE Thousands of artifacts from the Titanic will be auctioned next year, the artifacts' owner, Premier Exhibitions Inc. , said today. Premier has hired Guernsey’s Auctioneers to sell the artifacts. The results of the auction will be announced on April 15 in New York City. Premier’s collection includes over five thousand artifacts recovered in expeditions to the wreck site in 1987, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2004....	23rd December 2011
Irish Examiner	TITANIC'S FERRY BOAT SAVED The British government paid ?170,000 (?250,000) today to save a rusting boat which once ferried passengers on to the Titanic.The bid was accepted at an auction in Paris after fears that the SS Nomadic would end up in a breaker's yard instead of being brought back to Belfast.The ferry was the last White Star vessel to be built at the city's famous Harland and Wolff shipyard where the Titanic was launched in 1912.A special charitable trust will now be set up to oversee fundraising and the full restoration of the Nomadic....	26th January 2006
ca	TITANIC AUCTION NOT POPULAR AT MARITIME MUSEUM - THECHRONICLEHERALD.CA The sale of more than 5,000 artifacts salvaged from the world’s most famous shipwreck is causing concerns for a local museum official. Concerns serious enough the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic will never consider hosting the Titanic relics — even as a temporary exhibit. "No maritime museum in the world that is part of the (International Congress of Maritime Museums) would display any of these items," the museum’s registrar Lynn-Marie Richard said in a recent interview....	8th January 2012
Macclesfield Express	TOWN?S TITANIC LINK EXPECTED TO FETCH ?6K A POIGNANT postcard sent from the doomed ship Titanic to a Macclesfield hotel is going up for auction next weekend â€“ and is expected to fetch up to ?6,000.Second-class passenger, William Angle, sent a message from the liner to Miss Nelly Angle at the former Macclesfield Arms Hotel.He posted the card when the Titanic docked at Queenstown, Ireland, on its maiden voyage â€“ just days before the vessel crashed into an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic Ocean....	19th April 2006
Toronto Star	NEW TITANIC ARTIFACTS UNVEILED AT HALIFAX MUSEUM HALIFAX A rosette fashioned from splintered pieces of the Titanic's grand staircase and a simple canvas bag used to transport one man's belongings to his grieving widow were unveiled Tuesday in Halifax, where 150 victims of the infamous maritime disaster are buried.The items, which were acquired in October from an auction in England, have been placed on display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic 97 years after the ill-fated luxury liner sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic....	16th April 2009
Boston Globe	DIAGRAMS FROM TITANIC INQUEST TO BE AUCTIONED A British auctioneer is offering two diagrams of the ill-fated liner Titanic for sale on Oct. 29. The diagrams were used during the official inquest following the ship's sinking in 1912, auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said Wednesday. A 32.5-foot-long (9.9-meter-long) cutaway diagram of the ship's interior, also used at the inquest, fetched 220,000 pounds ($363,000) at an auction at in April by Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes in southwest England....	19th October 2011
dailymail.co.uk	'SAFE ON THE CARPATHIA': AUCTION OF TELEGRAM SENT BY TITANIC SURVIVOR FROM RESCUE SHIP FOUR DAYS AFTER DISASTER A scribbled note written by a survivor of the Titanic to tell his family he was alive and well has been put up for sale. The telegram was sent from the rescue ship Carpathia on April 18, 1912 - four days after the liner Titanic sank - to reassure the sender's family. Scrawled in pencil and yellowed with age, it reads: '(To) William Mansfield, Washington St., Morristown, New Jersey....	27th September 2011
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AP	TITANIC LOCKET FETCHES $100,000 A locket that went down with the Titanic and a survivor's handwritten account of the 1912 disaster fetched tens of thousands of dollars at auction Saturday.American passenger Helen Churchill Candee's 36â€“page description of the ship's sinking, which fetched US$85,000 in the sale, describes how she gave her locket to Edward Kent, a friend on board the ship, for safekeeping after the Titanic hit the iceberg that destroyed it.The locket, which sold for US$100,000, was found in the drowned Kent's jacket pocket when his body was recovered soon after his death....	4th May 2006
Belfast Telegraph	NOMADIC TO RETURN TO BELFAST ON A BARGE SS Nomadic will return to Belfast on a barge brought from the other side of the world specially for the task.It will take five days to ferry the former Titanic tender from the French port of Le Havre to Belfast, where she was built 95 years ago.The Department of Social Development (DSD) has confirmed that the final remaining White Star Line vessel will return in July this year.She was saved from the scrapyard when she was bought at auction in Paris by DSD for the reserve price of €250,000.The Belfast Telegraph has spearheaded the media campaign to rescue Nomadic. ...	16th May 2006
World Records Academy	MOST EXPENSIVE LETTER FROM TITANIC-WORLD RECORD SET BY SPINK SMYTHE letter, dated April 10, 1912, from a first class passenger onboard the Titanic (written by passenger George Graham of Harriston of Canada, a sales manager for the Eaton's department store company, to a business colleague in Berlin, Germany) was sold at auction by Spink Smythe in New York City for $16,100-setting the world record for the Most expensive letter from Titanic....	24th February 2009
Herald News	SCIENTIST DECRIES HUGE TITANIC AUCTION He said he agrees with Hart, who last saw her father when he wrapped her in a blanket and placed her in a lifeboat with her mother. Hart, who died in 1996, equated taking artifacts from the Titanic site to robbing graves in a cemetery. Blasco said such a thing would never be allowed on land, and watery graves such as the Titanic site should be treated the same as gravesites on land. He likened the American company’s actions to driving a truck into a cemetery, taking things from gravesites and selling them....	16th January 2012
	SECTION OF TITANIC HULL OFFERED BY HERITAGE AUCTIONS An actual 7 x 4 inch section from the hull of the doomed ship R.M.S. Titanic, modern history’s most famous shipwreck – consigned by famous author, Hollywood consultant and deep sea archeologist Charles Pellegrino – is expected to bring $4,000+ as part of Heritage Auctions’ May 21 Americana & Political Memorabilia event. A minimum of 10% from proceeds will be donated to the Firefighter's Burn Center....	9th May 2011
ic Birmingham	LABOUR TO THE RESCUE he Government has stepped in to save a rusting boat which once ferried passengers on to the Titanic - following a campaign by a Coventry man.Titanic enthusiast Howard Nelson recently launched the world's only Titanic Heritage Trust in a bid to raise the money needed to save the SS Nomadic, the last remaining vessel with direct links to the ill-fated ship.Yesterday the Government's bid of ?170,000 was accepted at a Paris auction and the ship will now be taken back to Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard, where it was originally built in 1912, to be renovated, the cost of which must now be raised by the charitable trust set up by Mr Nelson. ...	27th January 2006
BBC News	RETURN FOR 'LIVING HISTORY' SHIP The ship which was used to transfer first-class passengers to the Titanic is to return to Belfast on 17 July. The SS Nomadic was bought by the Northern Ireland Office at an auction in Paris for £171,320 in January. It had lately fallen into disrepair and the government bowed to pressure to save it from the breakers yard. Social Development Minister David Hanson said: "Nomadic has the potential to bring living history of this period back to Belfast in a tangible way." ...	5th July 2006
Belfast Telegraph	95 YEARS AFTER SHE LEFT, THE SS NOMADIC FINALLY SAILS BACK HOME SS NOMADIC was due to set off from a French port at noon today on her final voyage home to the city where she was built.The Titanic's 'little sister' will be ferried by submersible barge out of Le Havre in Normandy, through the English Channel, rounding Land's End for the long trip north through the Irish Sea and into Belfast Lough.The vessel, which carried first-class passengers onto the Titanic from Cherbourg, was saved from the scrapyard in January when she was bought by the Department of Social Development at auction in Paris for €250,000.Since then, the campaigners who fought to save her have been waiting impatiently for the day she arrives at Belfast Harbour. ...	12th July 2006
BBC News Online	TITANIC FERRY TO BE AUCTIONED OFF Titanic ferry to be auctioned offThe SS Nomadic is being auctioned in Paris for 250,000 euros (?170,000), the French Titanic Society said.At least three buyers - from Belfast, Monaco and France - are expected to bid for the derelict vessel.The 67-metre (221-foot) ship is docked in the port of Le Havre after finishing its life as a floating restaurant.The ship is up for auction as the Port of Paris authorities try to recover unpaid mooring fees.A company from Northern Ireland is hoping to take the Nomadic back to Belfast - where she was built - for a full restoration, as part of a permanent Titanic memorial. ...	25th January 2006
New York Times	ASTOR VILLA AUCTIONED AT NEWPORT; CHAIN DRUG STORE OWNER IS BUYER Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NEWPORT, R. I., July l7---A chain drugstore owner purchased today the fourteen-room French villa of John Jacob Astor here for less than half of its original purchase price. The showplace went under the ...	18th July 1948
Henry Aldridge & Son	TITANIC LETTER MAY FETCH £15000 An eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic will be the highlight of an auction of Titanic related artefacts this weekend. Laura Francatelli a servatn of Lucile Duff Gordon and Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon wrote the harrowing account for the 1912 British enquiry into the disaster presided over by Lord Mersey. Andrew Aldrifdge auctioneer was quoted "You see a lot of documents that talk briefly about the incident but this affidavit goes into strong details it talks about Lady Duff being sick the whole time about the lifeboat bobbing up and down about the screams" Aldridge suggests the letter may fetch £10000 to £15000 pounds. ...	11th October 2010
Brighton Argus	CAR BOOT BARGAIN HUNT FINDS TITANIC TREASURE Jessica Mangold Bravery Award...	2nd April 2005
UTV	HISTORIC SHIP TO RETUN HOME A ship which once ferried passengers to the ill-fated Titanic is to be brought back to Belfast in July after years of languishing semi-derelict in a French port. Northern Ireland Office Minister David Hanson confirmed today that a firm will use a submersible barge as part of plans to return the SS Nomadic.The British government bought the 95-year-old ship at an auction in Paris earlier this year for just over £170,000. Click here to find out more!It is the last of the White Star ships, once a luxury ferry built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast the year before the Titanic, which transported passengers to the great liner which later sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives in 1912....	16th May 2006
New York Times	CABINET IS SALE FEATURE Mahogany Breakfront Brings $585 in $51,640 Auction --- A Regency mahogany and grillwork breakfront cabinet with Roman portrait medallions, circa 1820, was sold to a private collector for $585 yesterday at the final session of the sale ...	24th September 1950
	FRAGMENT OF EDITH RUSSELL'S LUCKY PIG TO SELL AT AUCTION A tiny fragment of a Titanic Survivor's lucky mascot will go under the hammer....	14th November 2011
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC ACHIEVEMENT: NOMADIC SAILS INTO BELFAST Fans of the SS Nomadic will be dressing up in period costume to welcome her as she makes a triumphant return to Belfast's docks this evening.The ship has already made an appearance in Belfast Lough as she arrived on Saturday morning but her official homecoming will take place this evening.As the Titanic's 'little sister' proceeds up the Lagan to dock next to the Odyssey Arena, she will receive a chorus from a brass band as supporters dressed in Edwardian fashion cheer her.A party of members of the French Titanic Society (AFT) who worked closely with Belfast Industrial Heritage in the hard-fought campaign to save Nomadic from the scrapyard will be present this evening to welcome her home.The 95-year-old vessel was bought by the Department of Social Development in January at auction in Paris....	17th July 2006
	TITANIC LAUNCH TICKET An extremely rare example of a ticket to the launch of the Titanic Launch of t...	31st May 1911
Press Association	TITANIC SURVIVOR'S ACCOUNT FETCHES £20,000 A woman's account of escaping the sinking Titanic in 1912 sold for £20,000 at auction. Laura Francatelli from London said she heard an "awful rumbling" as the liner went down and "then came screams and cries&...	20th October 2010
Khaleej Times	THE TITANIC AND THE SINKING OF HEARTS I know I wouldn't have been half as moved by the news of Millvina's death at a ripe old age had it not been for Cameron's Titanic. ...	4th June 2009
	ERNEST WALDRON KING : GENERAL INFORMATION King, Ernest Waldron. Lived at Currin Rectory, Clones, Ireland. Occupation - Clerk, Pursers Assistant. 28 years old. (Born in Dublin, Ireland). Body number 321. Interred at Fairview Cemetery, Halifa...
Swann Galleries	STANDING ROOM ONLY FOR OCEAN LINER AUCTION New York—It was standing room only at Swann Galleries on March 4 for the two-part sale of The Christopher Bou Collec...	15th March 2010
	GENERAL INFORMATION MBE awarded March 1946. Purser SS Mataroa of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company Ltd. Awarded for long and meritorious service at sea and in dangerous waters during the war. He served as a Purser for the company for 20 years, tr...
Shepton Mallet Journal	REDISCOVERED POSTCARD STRENGTHENS LINK BETWEEN TOWN AND TITANIC Castle Cary's connection with the world's most famous shipping disaster has been strengthened still further. This is because a New Forest pensioner has discovered a postcard found on the ship, which was to be sent to the wife of a local butcher....	2nd March 2000
BBC News	LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES AT 97 The last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic has died aged 97....	31st May 2009
Southern Daily Echo	MILLVINA DEAN, LAST SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES She died this morning after being cared for at a nursing home in Woodlands, in the New Forest. ...	31st May 2009
	WHAT REALLY SANK THE LUSITANIA NYI, the following lot is among the highlights in Swann's Sept 15 auction of the Eric C. Caren Collection: Sale 2253 Lot 309 WHAT REALLY SANK THE LUSITANIA? (STEAMSHIPS.) John Brown ...	30th August 2011
	REPORT TO MARCONI TRAFFIC MANAGER [EXTRACT] Harold Bride, Junior Marconi operator in his Report of April 27th to W. B. Cross, Traffic Manager, Marconi Co. says: Just at this moment the Captain said: ''You cannot do any more; save yourselves.'' Leaving the Captain we climbed on top of th...
Titanic Research	THE TURN OF A CARD Senan Molony HERE is the Two of Hearts… signed by three survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. This picture appeared in the New York Sun on Sunday April 21, 1912. It seems richly symbolic of the hand...	25th November 2009
Voyage	NEW YORK (American Line) ex-City of New York, Inman Line As Titanic left Southampton 10 April 1912, the suction and wave action of her propellers and huge bulk tore New York loose from her mooring in tandem with Oceanic...	20th July 2005
BBC News	BELFAST SURVIVOR SET FOR HOMECOMING Amid the shipwrecks scattered about Le Havre docks in France is a survival story. The SS Nomadic, a rusting relic so nearly sent to the scrapyard, is ready to come home. The Nomadic is to return to Belfast Weeds grow on its deck, and year after year of recent neglect have taken a heavy toll. Step onboard and you see the enormity of the renovation task. Look hard enough, however, and you do glimpse the potential. The question is will the millions needed be raised to do the job? ...	11th July 2006
The Times	MILLVINA DEAN, LAST LIVING SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, DIES AGED 97 Nearly a century after she was rescued from the decks of the sinking Titanic, the last remaining survivor of the disaster has died, aged 97....	31st May 2009
Gare Maritime	MAURETANIA HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN BRISTOL Gavin Murphy Relics of the Cunard four-stacker now grace a Bristol bar...	8th November 2001
Hexham Courant	OLYMPIC FITTINGS TO BE SOLD OFF Helen Compson Summer 2004 news report...	21st May 2004