Woodwork

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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
	MORRO CASTLE - DINING ROOM The First Class Dining Saloon was similar in layout and design to those aboard the Siboney and Orizaba, but while those rooms were austere almost to the point of being minimalist, those of the new ships were elaborate. The domina...
	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...
	AN ECHO OF A PAST TRAGEDY The Diary of Frederick Hamilton (Cable Engineer: MacKay Bennett) The White Star Line, owners of the SS Titanic chatered two cable-laying steamers Mackay-Bennett and Minia to locate and identify bodies, including. Two...	April 1912