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That cane is going up for auction next week. Arlan Ettinger, President of the Auction House Guernsey's joins the show to discuss. Titanic survivor's cane now up for auction [Video]
A Titanic survivor's walking stick, with an electric light she used to signal for help from a lifeboat, is one of thousands of maritime items that will be up for auction in Rhode Island. Guernsey ...
A letter written by Titanic survivor Lucy Lady Duff-Gordon is slated to hit the auction block in Boston.
The Titanic ' s Collapsible Boat D approaches RMS Carpathia at 7:15 am on 15 April 1912. The Titanic, showing eight lifeboats along the starboard-side boat deck (upper deck): four lifeboats near the bridge wheel house and four lifeboats near the 4th funnel. Lifeboats played a crucial role during the sinking of the Titanic on 14–15 April 1912.
The first online auction site was Onsale.com, founded by Jerry Kaplan in May 1995. [10] Onsale's business model had the company act as the seller. [9] In September 1995, eBay was founded by French-Iranian computer scientist Pierre Omidyar using a different approach to online auctions by facilitating person-to-person transactions. This was a ...
Titanic Lifeboat No. 1 was a lifeboat from the steamship Titanic. It was the fifth boat launched to sea, over an hour after the liner collided with an iceberg and began sinking on 14 April 1912 . With a capacity of 40 people, it was launched with only 12 aboard, the fewest to escape in any one boat that night.
The famous floating “door” that has caused endless heated debates since 'Titanic's 1997 release has sold for $718,750 at auction.
In accordance with accepted practices of the time, as ships were seen as largely unsinkable and lifeboats were intended to transfer passengers to nearby rescue vessels, [162] [k] Titanic only had enough lifeboats to carry about half of those on board; if the ship had carried the full complement of about 3,339 passengers and crew, only about a ...