NOS news•today, 5:28 p.m
A watch belonging to the captain who saved 700 passengers from the Titanic has sold for €1.87 million at auction in the UK.
Captain Arthur Rostron’s RMS Carpathia was en route from the US to the Mediterranean in April 1912. Rostron changed course when his radio officer received distress signals from the Titanic on the night of April 14-15, 1912. The disaster ship had struck an iceberg on its voyage and was taking on water rapidly.
When the Carpathia reached the scene, the Titanic had already sunk, but the twenty crew found a lifeboat with people on board near the crash site. So the 700 passengers could be saved.
A widow
Three women whose lives were Rotron’s gave him an 18-karat gold pocket watch as a thank you. “Presented to Captain Rostron, with sincere gratitude and thanks to three survivors of the Titanic,” read the inscription on the inside.
One of these women was the widow of American businessman John Jacob Astor IV, the richest passenger on board and one of the approximately 1,500 people on board who drowned in the accident. His body was found a week later.
Auction brought Astor’s own watch in April 1.42 million euros. According to the auction house, the amount fetched for the Rotron pocket watch is the highest ever paid for Titanic memorabilia.
2024-11-17 16:28:00
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