For sale, rare image of Titanic survivors rowing for their lives
huddled together in their lifejackets, these are survivors of the Titanic on the brink of rescue.
Rare photos taken from the Carpathia – the only ship to pick up those who escaped the sinking – show the first lifeboats being brought alongside.
They also include an image of a distant iceberg, which is said to be the one that struck the Titanic on the night of April 14, 1912.
The pictures are included in the scrapbook of Carpathia passenger
‘We did not believe it’
louis Ogden. The New York lawyer had bought a camera to record his own trip across the Atlantic with wife Agatha.
The couple were woken at daybreak by a commotion outside, and were out on deck when the first lifeboat arrived.
Mrs Ogden later wrote to a friend: ‘We had been told it was an accident to the Titanic but did not believe it until we saw the [White Star] insignia on the lifeboats.’
One of the photos shows lifeboat number six, which carried the nowfamous Margaret Brown. Mrs Brown was later nicknamed the unsinkable Molly Brown for her courage in demanding they turn back to look for more survivors. The Ogdens were later praised by Titanic passengers after giving them clothes for the Carpathia’s three-day trip back to New York.
Their scrapbook is being sold online today by American firm Remarkable Rarities. It is expected to reach over $50,000 (£38,000). Bobby livingston, from the auctioneers, said it is ‘a tremendous archive of the harrowing rescue’.