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Offline Mince

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Lookout
« 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.

Vulture

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Re: Lookout
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2009, 10:07:42 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?

Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Lookout
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2009, 11:22:30 PM »
I bet his name was Mince, he sounds a right twat.
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

Malc

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Re: Lookout
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2009, 06:24:04 AM »
I bet he saw that coming.

peter

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Re: Lookout
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2009, 12:53:37 PM »
I bet he saw that coming.

but not the iceberg

Malc

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Re: Lookout
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2009, 10:19:11 PM »
Er, that was the.....never mind. ..0