A haul of 8,000 items from 150 shipwrecks is to be auctioned after the closure of a Cornish museum
They are some of the most evocative historic artefacts that fate ever consigned to the bottom of the sea. Now, coal from the Titanic, a piece of rope from the Mary Rose and musket flints from the shipwreck that inspired William Wordsworth to write one of his greatest works are to be
This includes 46g of coal, recovered in 1994, which was onboard the Titanic to fuel the steamship’s doomed voyage to New York in 1912.earlier this year, the lumps of coal have been valued at £400 to £600. Lay is hoping the auction will attract fans of the Titanic from around the world. Musket flints recovered from the Earl of Abergavenny will also go under the hammer, centuries after news of the shipwreck devastated Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy.The death of their brother, John, who was captain of the ship when it sank in Weymouth Bay in 1805, moved Wordsworth to write several laments, including Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont.
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