Ship tool with ties to Titanic to be sold

Sunday, November 18, 2012

— A sextant owned by the captain of the first ship to respond to the Titanic is being offered at auction.

Sir Arthur Rostron’s sextant is expected to fetch $111,000 at the sale Saturday.

Rostron, captain of the Carpathia, acquired the navigational device in 1883, and it has remained in the family. It “would certainly have been the instrument he used to navigate through the ice floes,” the auctioneer quoted great-granddaughter Janet Rostron as saying.

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