3. A gorgeous pink diamond
On that tragic night of April, many things died along with the Titanic, and all 705 survivors filed insurance claims for lost property, all of them worth over $1 million.
Charlotte Gardeza was a rich woman who was a first-class passenger from Germantown, Pennsylvania, and she filed the biggest claim on the list.
She stayed in the “millionaire’s suite,” enjoying all the best things that the ship had to offer, but only for a couple of days, unfortunately.
When the Titanic hit the iceberg and sank, Gardeza lost all her 14 trunks, which contained a bard or soap, 84 pairs of gloves, 33 pairs of shoes, a diamond necklace that was worth $13,000, a gorgeous pink diamond from Tiffany & Co., which was worth $20,000 at the time, and more than $70,00 today.
What can we say? All of her trunks ended up being part of the things that died along with the Titanic.
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One thing is missing . The sarcophagus(mummy board) of the main priestess of Amen-Ra from the British Museum. It was on the ship .
Since than a copy is being masqueraded around the word .
The captains dog died aboard Titanic as well as other passengers dogs.
The idea that a man was saved after spending an hour in the frigid water is absurd. He’d have
not lasted more than twenty minutes in that water.
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The article was interesting and adds to the tragedy of lives lost and the treasures of those lost lives. But, the editing was atrocities! Numerous misspellings and gramatical errors.
I have not seen it mentioned that to me the most precious items that died were the dogs cats etc the passengers had with them.
Does anyone proof-read and spell check these articles before they are posted? It’s not that hard to do.
Sorry 😞 this article, in my never to be humble, opinion was a waste of time.
Hey Anna, your glaring ignorance shows, “Harbeck managed to get lots of videos of Alaska”. Video wasn’t invented yet, not for about 50 years later. What a dope.
My mother was very young at the time, but she and my grandparents were supposed to take the return visit back to England on the Titanic. It never arrived for them to do that. I wish I had the tickets today, but my grandfather got his money back instead.
Very interesting. For those who died as well as their belongings, you still cannot take it with you.
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