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Gold Watch Owned by Hero of Titanic Rescue up for Auction
The 18-carat timepiece was given to sixth engineer John Richardson, whose engine-room work helped save more than 700 Titanic passengers.
- On April 22, Hansons Auctioneers in Penshurst, Kent, will auction a rare 18-carat gold pocket watch awarded to John Richardson, a Titanic rescue engineer.
- Richardson served as the sixth engineer aboard the RMS Carpathia, which saved more than 700 survivors after the ship struck ice in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912.
- Presented on December 14, 1912, by the Mayor of Liverpool, the timepiece honors Richardson's "conspicuous services" during the rescue, an effort founders believed had been overlooked.
- Hansons director Justin Matthews expects the watch to fetch between $62,500 and $125,000, noting that Titanic artifacts remain highly valued after a $1.95 million auction sale in 2024.
- The watch previously appeared at the Southampton Maritime Museum's 80th-anniversary exhibition and remained within Richardson's family for nearly a century before its first sale in 2003.
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