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Gold watch belonging to Titanic hero set to fetch £100,000 at auction
From manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A gold watch belonging to someone who helped rescue people from the Titanic is set to fetch up to £100,000 at an auction. The luxury 18-carat gold timepiece was given to the engineer of a steamship which rescued more than 700 passengers from the sinking ship 114 years ago during the Titanic rescue mission. John Richardson was the sixth engineer aboard the RMS Carpathia, a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger ship which saved survivors from the Titanic’s lifeboats. The Carpathia was on its way from New York for Europe when it changed course after the ship's wireless operator picked up the distress call "we've ... (full story)