NYC auction to offer Titanic relics

The artifacts which belong to the crew and passengers aboard the Titanic will go under the hammer on April 11, 2012.

The auction will include a letter a handwritten account by Arthur Rostron, the captain of the Carpathia, the first ship that arrived on the disaster scene after picking up the Titanic’s distress call.

With a pre-sale estimate of USD 90,000 to USD 120,000, the letter offers “a full account and timeline of what happened from the moment the Titanic struck the iceberg to the time the ship sank,” said Bonhams’ maritime art consultant Gregg K. Dietrich.

Bonhams will also offer 35 of the 37 messages from the signal book of the Titanic’s sister ship, the Olympic.

A logometer used to determine the Titanic’s speed is also seen among the artifacts recovered from the RMS Titanic wreck site, which lies at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Titanic was a British passenger liner that struck an iceberg on its first voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, and sank on April 15, 1912 leaving 1,517 people in the watery graves.

Sinking of the giant passenger steamship has proved to be the greatest disaster in marine history of the world.

The ship was owned by the White Star Line and constructed at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland.

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