Titanic watch raises £13,000 in US auction
A POCKET watch owned by an Irish immigrant who survived the sinking of the Titanic has sold for three times its estimate at auction.
The 18-carat gold watch stopped on the day the ship sank, when Nora Keane of County Limerick was rescued by a lifeboat. The timepiece has not worked since.
It made 13,000 at an auction in Massachusetts featuring dozens of items salvaged from the doomed liner.
Ms Keane had emigrated to Pennsylvania and was returning to the US on the Titanic’s maiden voyage after a four-month visit to see her mother in Castle Connell, Co Limerick. The watch had been given to her as a good-luck gift.
The auction raised a total of more than 79,000 and included the only known example of a third-class menu, dated 14 April, 1912, which included roast beef and gravy for dinner. It sold for 23,500.
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