Classic Boat

Saleroom

HENRY ALDRIDGE & SON

Titanic attic-find tearjerker

s the foundered in the north Atlantic ice on the evening of 14 April, 1912, bandleader Wallace Hartley played his way into eternal memory, striking up the hymn ‘Nearer My God to Thee’ to calm the passengers in artefact to sell at auction when it made £1.1m.

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