![]() Her husband Edvard Bengtsson Lindell held Elin’s ring before he died on Collapsible A. The wedding ring belonged to Swedish passenger Elin Gerda Lindell, who briefly reached Collapsible A, but later drowned, according to Encyclopedia Titanica. The corpse in the dinner jacket was identified as Titanic first class passenger Thomson Beattie. The bodies found by Oceanic were left on the lifeboat when Collapsible A’s survivors were picked by another lifeboat. Related: Molly Brown’s Titanic cup sold at auction for $200,000Ī number of Titanic passengers made it to the lifeboat, known as ‘Collapsible A’ when it washed off the ship’s deck, partly submerged, but not all survived. “Titanic was ‘the ship of dreams’ but this is the ship of nightmares – it’s the horrific elements of what happens in a disaster.” “It’s an incredibly graphic account of the recovery,” Henry Aldridge & Son auctioneer Andrew Aldridge told. A woman’s ring was also found on the lifeboat, according to the note. One corpse was wearing a dinner jacket and the bodies of two Titanic firemen were wedged under the lifeboat’s seats, it explained, adding that one corpse’s arms came off in the hands of the Oceanic’s boarding officer. ship’s time on Apand sank just over two hours later with the loss of more than 1,500 lives.Ī handwritten account of the lifeboat recovery by an unidentified Oceanic passenger describes the gruesome discovery of three corpses. Related: First letter written onboard the Titanic up for sale
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