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R.M.S. TITANIC:
R.M.S. TITANIC: Original and unique photo pair of Charles Lightoller and Joseph Boxhall; photographs, recto and verso. Ex Bell Album, with original captions and exclusive copyright for the purchaser. ‘Mr Lightoller, 2nd Officer, making a boat’, shows the Titanic’s most senior surviving officer on the Oceanic at Southampton on Saturday 8 May 1909. He has worked up a sweat and has his sleeves rolled. In his autobiography, Titanic and Other Ships, Lightoller tells of junior surgeon John Simpson saying on the sinking deck, ‘Hello, Lights, are you warm?’, writing: “The idea of anyone being warm in that temperature was a joke in itself … even in pants and sweater over pyjamas alone I was in a bath of perspiration … The thing was to get these boats away at all costs.” On the reverse an original picture of Titanic Fourth Officer Joseph Groves Boxhall in an Oceanic lifebuoy at New York, 29 May 1909. A poignant picture considering the disaster that befell Titanic just under three years later, when he would be sent away in charge of Lifeboat 2 by Captain Smith. Boxhall was in pain when landed by the Carpathia and soon developed pleurisy, causing him to be temporarily excused from giving evidence to the Senate Titanic inquiry. A pair of unique and exclusive photographs.
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