Titanic, gold pocket watch

A handwritten note by Richard William Smith, a British businessman who perished in the disaster, is heading to the auction ...
Mrs Astor and the two other wealthy grieving women presented the expensive timepiece to Arthur ... Rostron with the heartfelt gratitude and appreciation of three survivors of the Titanic April ...
The Titanic's distress call reached the Carpathia, a transatlantic passenger liner manned by Captain Arthur Rostron, at 12:20 a.m., but it was more than three hours away. Another ship, the ...