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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Titanic sub update: ‘Human remains’ found as first photos show mangled Titan wreckage recovered from sea floor Andrea Blanco,Andy Gregory,Ariana Baio and Alisha Rahaman Sarkar June 29, 2023 at ...
The US Coast Guard has recovered human remains and debris from the Titan submersible that imploded on its way to the wreckage of the Titanic underneath the Atlantic Ocean.. The submersible had ...
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.
Investigators from the US Coast Guard, Canada, France and the United Kingdom are working closely together on probe into implosion
Philip S. Johnson (January 27, 1953 – November 11, 2011) [1] was an American violinist. Though he was a promising talent in his youth, his career never took off. He is now known to have stolen the Ames Stradivarius, a valuable antique violin, from Roman Totenberg in 1980. [2]