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The violin was later passed on to a violin teacher who gave it to the next owner's mother. "It's been in the same family for over 70 years," Henry Aldridge & Sons state. Craig Sopin, the owner of one of the world's largest collections of Titanic memorabilia, a leading Titanic expert, and a general skeptic of Titanic claims believes the violin ...
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.
The Titanic’s wreckage two and a half miles below the Atlantic Ocean rested unseen by human contact for nearly 75 years, until Bob Ballard’s expedition discovered the infamous ocean liner’s ...
The U.S. Navy found the wreckage of the sub 16,500 feet below the surface and, with the help of the CIA, embarked on a secret mission to recover the Soviet vessel and its nuclear warheads.
Investigators from the US Coast Guard, Canada, France and the United Kingdom are working closely together on probe into implosion
The ship arrived at the scene during the night, so recovery of bodies began at 06:00 on 20 April. [2] CS Mackay-Bennett was anchored close to but not within the recovery area, and she offloaded her skiff lifeboats. Crews then rowed into the recovery area and manually recovered the bodies into the skiffs.
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 ...