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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Mince on January 21, 2009, 09:55:32 PM

Title: Lookout
Post by: Mince on January 21, 2009, 09:55:32 PM

Letters written by a Cornish sailor who survived the sinking of the Titanic have been auctioned for ?17,500. The sailor, from Bude, was a lookout on the Titanic when the ship struck an iceberg in the Atlantic in 1912. He escaped in a lifeboat and went on to serve on the Britannic, which sank in 1916.

Apparently his name was not Uncle Albert.

Title: Re: Lookout
Post by: Vulture on January 21, 2009, 10:07:42 PM

Quote from: Mince on January 21, 2009, 09:55:32 PM

Letters written by a Cornish sailor who survived the sinking of the Titanic have been auctioned for ?17,500. The sailor, from Bude, was a lookout on the Titanic when the ship struck an iceberg in the Atlantic in 1912. He escaped in a lifeboat and went on to serve on the Britannic, which sank in 1916.

Apparently his name was not Uncle Albert.

Was his name Jonah?

Title: Re: Lookout
Post by: The Peepmaster on January 21, 2009, 11:22:30 PM

I bet his name was Mince, he sounds a right twat.

Title: Re: Lookout
Post by: Malc on January 22, 2009, 06:24:04 AM

I bet he saw that coming.

Title: Re: Lookout
Post by: peter on January 22, 2009, 12:53:37 PM

Quote from: Malc on January 22, 2009, 06:24:04 AM

I bet he saw that coming.

but not the iceberg

Title: Re: Lookout
Post by: Malc on January 23, 2009, 10:19:11 PM

Er, that was the.....never mind. ..0