A gold pocket watch owned by an unsung hero of the Titanic disaster could fetch up to £100,000 at auction, those selling it say.
The item, which goes under the hammer in Penshurst later this month, was awarded to the engineer of a steamship responsible for saving more than 700 of the stricken ocean liner’s passengers in April 1912.
John Richardson had been instrumental in the RMS Carpathia rescuing survivors from the Titanic’s lifeboats, just hours after it had gone down in the North Atlantic, killing 1,500 people.
Justin Matthews, director of Hansons Auctioneers, described the watch as having given him “goose bumps” when he first held it.
