Items from Titanic survivors to be auctioned
Last updated 6th Apr 2022
A number of items which belonged to survivors aboard the Titanic are to go under the hammer in east Belfast later this month.
They'll be auctioned close to where the ship was built in 1912 at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard.
The ship went down on its maiden voyage, despite being declared 'unsinkable'. The items which will be auctioned include a deck blanket and trinket box, both of which are believed to have belonged to one of the ship's survivors, Molly Brown.
Mrs Brown was an American human rights activist who went on to help others by setting up the Survivor's Committee, raising thousands of pounds for them.
Also set for auction are a launch stub, reportedly owned by a friend of the former H&W managing Director, Thomas Andrews, a razor belonging to the Titanic look-out Alfred Evans and a discharge certificate for officer J Boxhall.