Titanic memorabilia auction

Title

Titanic memorabilia auction

Genre

News report; Interview; Special

TX Date

16 Apr 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:04:15

Description

On the 76th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, relics went under the hammer at a special auction yesterday. There were 180 lots but most excitement was caused by a watercolour picture of the liner: Fitting Out the Titanic, Belfast, by Charles Dixon. Reporter Eve Conway was at the auction (bidding heard); speaks to John Moore of the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum; Titanic survivor Bertram Dean from Southampton; Herald of Free Enterprise survivor Stephen Holmwood; Bob Prior of the British Titanic Society. For AM programme.

Contributors

John Moore; Eve Conway; Bertram Dean; Stephen(?) Holmwood(?); Bob Prior

Keywords

Shipwrecks; Auctions; Ferries; Seaborne disasters; Titanic; Painters; Paintings; Belfast; Ocean liners; Salvage; AM (radio programme); Titanic disaster (1912); Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster (1987); Zeebrugge; Memorabilia; Charles Dixon; Harland & Wolff; Ulster Folk and Transport Museum; British Titanic Society; Diasters (events)

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