(23 Jun 2007)
1. Exterior of Christie's auction house
2. Wide pan of auction preview exhibition
3. Wide of woman holding deck log from S.S. MacKay-Bennett
4. Close up deck log from S.S. MacKay-Bennett
5. SOUNDBITE (English): Gregg Dietrich, Senior Specialist Maritime and Oceanliner items at Christie's:
"The types of material they were told to load up with including ice and coffins, lead weights, and other types of materials, wood, that they normally wouldn't of loaded onto a ship like this. The passengers that they had on the ship. They had the reverend and a coroner on board, so that they could send the bodies to, give them a final blessing and send them off into the deep."
6. Close up pan of Laurie Marie Cribb diary and letter
7. Close up pan of script reading "accident has happened" in Laurie Marie Cribb letter
8. Close up Laurie Marie Cribb diary illustration of Titanic
9. SOUNDBITE (English): Gregg Dietrich, Senior Specialist Maritime and Oceanliner items at Christie's:
"The third collector, type of collector are the people who are interested in the people who succumbed to the tragedy, the people who died during the sinking. How they died, what class of passenger they were, whether they even made it near a life boat and whether their bodies were recovered or not recovered, and the wealth of the people that perished when the Titanic sank."
10. Close up Marconi grams (telegrams)
11. Close up Marconi gram header
12. Wide of auction preview exhibition
STORYLINE:
Christies Auction House in New York City on Friday unveiled 18 lots relating to the Titanic sinking that will go up for auction as a part of a ocean liner sale to be held June 28th.
The objects provide a grim reminder of the 1912 sinking that claimed the lives of nearly 1500 people.
Among them are the deck log of the S.S. MacKay-Bennett which catalogues the items needed for a wreckage and human salvage effort.
"The types of material they were told to load up with including; ice and coffins, lead weights and other types of materials, wood, that they normally wouldn't of loaded onto a chip like this. The passengers they had on the ship. They had a reverend and a coroner on board, so they could send the bodies to, give them a final blessing and send them off into the deep," said Gregg Dietrich, the senior specialist of maritime and oceanliner items at Christie's.
After seven days of searching, 306 bodies were recovered - of these 116 were buried at sea, with 190 remaining on board.
The ship's deck log is expected to fetch 30 to 50 thousand US dollars.
Sales of Titanic memorabilia attract three types of buyers according to Dietrich.
The first type is interested in the mechanics of the ship and what lead to the sinking, the second are the buyers interested in the survivors, and the last group are interested in the more macabre details.
"The third collector, type of collector are the people who are interested in the people who succumbed to the tragedy, the people who died during the sinking. How they died, what class of passenger they were, whether they even made it near a life boat and whether their bodies were recovered or not recovered, and the wealth of the people that perished when the Titanic sank," Dietrich explained.
Not all of the objects available in the sale centre on the lives lost to the tragedy.
A letter from survivor Laurie Marie Cribb details her account of the sinking from the first alarm to her eventual return home.
A diary Cribb kept accompanies the letter.
In it is an illustration of the Titanic.
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