Titanic deckchair sells for 100,000 pounds at UK auction

LONDON: One of a handful of deckchairs salvaged from the wreck of the doomed liner Titanic has fetched a whopping 100,000 pounds at an auction in UK.

The Nantucket wooden chair was sold yesterday at the auction house Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes, Wiltshire, for just over 100,000 pounds, including taxes and fees.

The chair was sold to an unnamed UK-based collector who has a passion for buying pieces of historic importance, auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said.

He added that he was "very, very pleased" with the price, ' The Guardian' reported.

The Nantucket wooden chair was found floating on the surface by the crew of the Mackay-Bennett, which was sent to recover victims' bodies after Titanic sank in the Atlantic waters on April 14, 1912.

The chair was used on the first class promenade deck of the ship and was believed to have been given to former crewmate Captain Julien Lemarteleur.

For the last 15 years it has been owned by an English Titanic collector who used it as a display item.

The chair was one of six or seven recovered by the Mackay-Bennett and taken back to Nova Scotia, Canada.

About 1,500 people died when the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg during its maiden voyage to New York from Southampton.