Titanic Artifacts auctioned at Christies
Published June 29th, 2007
A deck log from a ship that searched for bodies after the Titanic sank sold for more than $100,000 as part of a Christie’s auction on Thursday.
“It’s a journal that documents how many bodies were picked up and where in the Titanic debris field in the Atlantic Ocean,” said Gregg Dietrich, Christie’s maritime and oceanliner specialist.
The Titanic – the world’s largest passenger steamship at the time – struck an iceberg in the Atlantic and sunk on its maiden voyage, killing at least 1,496 people April 12, 1912.
The auction also included the ship’s first-class passenger list, with such prominent New York names as the Astors, Guggenheims and Strauses. That sold for $48,000, topping a pre-sale estimate of $15,000 to $20,000.
