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Locket gifted by Titanic violinist William Hartley to fiancée to be auctioned off at estimated £20,000

A locket given by the band leader on The Titanic to his fiancée is being auctioned off on Saturday, with an estimated value of up to £20,000. The locket, which was given to Wallace Hartley s fiancée Maria Robinson is up for auction with Henry Aldridge and Son - a world leading auctioneer in Titanic material. Wallace Hartley, from Colne, died in the 1912 tragedy. He was the leader of the ship s band and is infamous for leading the group to play on while it was sinking after striking an iceberg. When he was was found later dead in the water, he had his violin in its case with him - a gift from his fiancée Maria.

Locket gifted by Titanic violinist William Hartley to fiancée to be auctioned off at estimated £20,000

Locket gifted by Titanic violinist William Hartley to fiancée to be auctioned off at estimated £20,000
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Was This Violin Played on the Titanic?

Origin On April 15, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. One of the most storied events of the ship’s tragic sinking (and one of the most famous scenes from James Cameron’s 1997 movie “Titanic”) involves a group of musicians that continued to play as the ship began its descent into the icy waters:   In April 2021, around the anniversary of the ship’s sinking, a photograph was circulated on social media supposedly showing the violin that the band’s leader, Wallace Hartley, had played aboard the Titanic: This is a genuine image of Hartley’s violin. Hartley, unfortunately, as well as the other seven members of the Titanic’s orchestra, perished during the disaster along with more than 1,500 other passengers (out of an estimated 2,224 people on board).

On The Anniversary Of The Titanic, Remember The Cruel Depths And Noble Heights Of Their Final Hours: Some men chose to stoically help their families into boats and then stand aside

On The Anniversary Of The Titanic, Remember The Cruel Depths And Noble Heights Of Their Final Hours: Some men chose to stoically help their families into boats and then stand aside Posted on On the morning of April 15, 1912, the survivors of the Titanic were pulled from the icy North Atlantic by the Carpathia. The night before, at 11:40 p.m., shipboard time, the ship had struck an iceberg in a glancing-but-fatal blow, tearing into six of her 16 compartments two more than the greatest ship ever made could withstand. Capt. Edward Smith, a man with four decades on the seas, immediately went to the bridge and then down below with the ship’s architect, Thomas Andrews, to ascertain the extent of the damage. By five past midnight, Smith would order the passengers brought to the deck and the lifeboats prepared. Twenty minutes later, Andrews gave him the terrible news: “the unsinkable ship” was going to the bottom.

On The Anniversary Of The Titanic, Remember Their Final Hours

On The Anniversary Of The Titanic, Remember Their Final Hours
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