Titanic Tales: Now The Flask & An Archive
The world-wide interest in Titanic tragedy (of 1912) was fueled by the 1997 film on the sinking of this Olympic-class passenger liner. Interestingly, tales relating to The Titanic keep surfacing with surprising regularity. Here is the latest one attributed to the survivor Ms Barbara West (photo left)…
The latest story emerged after the death of Barbara, one of the last survivors of the disaster, in 2007, reports The Times of London. Barbara narrated the bravery of her father Arthur West “who shinned down a rope to deliver his wife and daughters a flask of hot milk in one of the Titanic’s lifeboats.”
Arthur, emigrating to Florida with his wife, Ada, and young children, Constance and Barbara, left the flask and returned to the deck of the sinking ship. “Now the flask and an archive, including a first-hand account written by Mrs (Ada) West, are expected to fetch up to £60,000 at auction.” More here…
For Titanic tales from an old BBC report…Please click here…
And here’s the Aussie twist to the Titanic story…
