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The Hartley violin was exhibited in Northern Ireland at the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built, Titanic Belfast, and in the United States at Titanic Branson and Titanic Pigeon Forge museums. It was sold by auction house Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes , Wiltshire , England, on 19 October 2013 for £ 900,000 ($1.7 million US), as reported ...
Wallace Henry Hartley (2 June 1878 – 15 April 1912), an English violinist, was the bandleader on the Titanic. Hartley's body was recovered by the CS Mackay-Bennett, [30] before being returned to England for burial in his home town of Colne, Lancashire. The violin that he used on the Titanic was found in its case strapped to his body.
Roman Totenberg (January 1, 1911 – May 8, 2012) was a Polish-American violinist and educator. A child prodigy, he lived in Poland, Moscow, Berlin, and Paris, before formally immigrating to the U.S. in 1938, at age 27.
Though the Titanic sank upon Rostron's arrival, his crew found 20 lifeboats and brought the hundreds of rescued people to New York. Over 1,500 people ultimately died as a result of the sinking ...
A gold watch worn by John Jacob Astor IV, a member of the wealthy Astor family and the richest man aboard the Titanic, sold for a record-breaking £1.175 million ($1.485 million) at auction on ...
A pocket watch rescued from the wreckage of the Titanic is expected to fetch $20,000 at auction. The timepiece belonged to Sinai Kantor, a 34-year-old Russian furrier who died when the ship sank ...
After a seven-day recovery operation, the CS Mackay-Bennett had: Recovered 306 of the 328 bodies found from among the 1,517 who perished aboard Titanic; Buried 116 at sea, of which only 56 were identified; Set sail for home with 190 bodies on board, almost twice as many as there were coffins available
Investigators from the US Coast Guard, Canada, France and the United Kingdom are working closely together on probe into implosion