At Christie’s, Titanic Log Fetches $100,000
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A deck log from a ship that searched for bodies after the Titanic sank sold for more than $100,000 as part of a Christie’s auction yesterday of memorabilia from the doomed oceanliner.
“It’s a journal that documents how many bodies were picked up and where in the Titanic debris field in the Atlantic Ocean,” Christie’s maritime and oceanliner specialist, Gregg Dietrich, said.
The auction also included the ship’s first-class passenger list, with such New York names as the Astors, Guggenheims and Strauses.
