For want of a key, the Titanic was lost; today, the key sold at auction
For want of a key, the Titanic was lost; today, the key sold at auction
Auction price: 90,000 pounds. The key, with the tag "Crows Nest Telephone Titanic," opened the binoculars store but was not on the ship when it sailed from Southampton. That meant lookouts had to rely on the naked eye. You know what happened next. picked by hisidea 1 year ago
tags Titanic ship iceberg binoculars key
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 Moe
1 year ago
Amazing story. For the sake of that little piece of metal, all those lives might have been spared, and there would have been no uber movie by the same name.
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 eljay
1 year ago
That is quite a story. I was thinking of how the man who forgot to return the key must have felt when he found out what happened.
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 suckersk...
1 year ago
Had I lived back then, it would have been me, definitely. But I'd have secretly dropped the key into the port basin as soon as possible.
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 Galoot
1 year ago
I've got this Shuttle tile I'd like to unload...
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 Hoosker
1 year ago
I've got this can of lighter fluid used to belong to the captain of the Hindenburg...
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