Titanic key for Devises auction - Sep 22
Published August 29th, 2007
A tiny key which could have saved the Titanic will go under auction in Britain next month.
The key to the ship’s crow’s nest binocular store survived the 1912 sinking of the vessel which killed 1,522 people because it was not on board.
Instead, it was with David Blair, the Titanic’s original second officer who was transferred off the ship shortly before she set sail on her fateful maiden voyage.
Blair realised too late that he had the key and kept it as a memento.
Auctioneer Alan Aldridge described the key as “one of the most important artefacts from the ship to have come to light”.
“It is the key that had the potential to save the Titanic,” he told The Sun newspaper.
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