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Original launch ticket for Titanic set for auction
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April 11, 2012, Wednesday
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A rare original launch ticket that could sell for up to US$70,000 will be the highlight of an auction in New York of Titanic memorabilia to mark the centennial anniversary of the ill-fated voyage, Bonham's said yesterday.
The ticket, which has its perforated admission stub still intact, would have allowed its holder to the launching and christening of the Titanic. But the operator White Star Line and builder Harland & Wolff did not christen the ship before its maiden voyage when it sank during the night of April 14-15 after hitting an iceberg, leading to the loss of 1,517 lives.
"The interest in the Titanic far surpasses the sinking or wreck of any other ship, making it an historical bookmark," Gregg Dietrich, Bonham's Maritime consultant, said in a statement announcing the April 15 sale.
A hand-written two-page report by Captain Arthur Henry Rostron, who was the captain of the rescue ship Carpathia, is expected to be another star lot that is expected to fetch as much as US$120,000.
"At 12:35am ship's time, April 15 ... 1912, I was called by the 1st officer in company with Marconi operator ... informed that the White Star Liner 'Titanic' was sending out urgent distress signals by wireless that she had struck ice & required immediate assistance ... I immediately ordered Carpathia turned round ... also sent wireless to Titanic saying we were coming to his assistance," Rostron wrote.
Letters and postcards from Titanic survivors, items from the 1953 film and James Cameron's 1997 movie about the tragedy and three framed Marconi messages saying "TITANIC HAS SUNK" will also be included in the auction.
The sale is one many exhibitions, voyages and auctions marking the anniversary. Guernsey's Auction House will be selling more than 5,500 artifacts recovered from the wreck site of the Titanic to only one bidder.
The ticket, which has its perforated admission stub still intact, would have allowed its holder to the launching and christening of the Titanic. But the operator White Star Line and builder Harland & Wolff did not christen the ship before its maiden voyage when it sank during the night of April 14-15 after hitting an iceberg, leading to the loss of 1,517 lives.
"The interest in the Titanic far surpasses the sinking or wreck of any other ship, making it an historical bookmark," Gregg Dietrich, Bonham's Maritime consultant, said in a statement announcing the April 15 sale.
A hand-written two-page report by Captain Arthur Henry Rostron, who was the captain of the rescue ship Carpathia, is expected to be another star lot that is expected to fetch as much as US$120,000.
"At 12:35am ship's time, April 15 ... 1912, I was called by the 1st officer in company with Marconi operator ... informed that the White Star Liner 'Titanic' was sending out urgent distress signals by wireless that she had struck ice & required immediate assistance ... I immediately ordered Carpathia turned round ... also sent wireless to Titanic saying we were coming to his assistance," Rostron wrote.
Letters and postcards from Titanic survivors, items from the 1953 film and James Cameron's 1997 movie about the tragedy and three framed Marconi messages saying "TITANIC HAS SUNK" will also be included in the auction.
The sale is one many exhibitions, voyages and auctions marking the anniversary. Guernsey's Auction House will be selling more than 5,500 artifacts recovered from the wreck site of the Titanic to only one bidder.
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