A hunk of coal from the Titanic could fetch $780 at auction
It’s unlikely that much else from the Titanic ’s wreckage will ever return to the surface, although a number of artifacts have been salvaged since the famous ocean liner’s rediscovery in 1985. Now, one of those pieces of history is headed to auction—a hunk of coal originally intended as fuel for the 882-foot-long vessel’s boilers.
The only artifacts that RMST is legally allowed to sell from the Titanic wreck are pieces of coal from the Titanic debris field, as there was so much of it on the ship that it is considered ...
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