A hard-tack biscuit that was originally part of a lifeboat survival kit from the Titanic has sold for £15,000, or around $23,000 USD, at an auction in the UK. The price was around £5,000 more than the 103-year old snack was expected to fetch.
The biscuit, or cracker, depending on which side of the Atlantic you're living, was kept by James Fenwick, a passenger onboard the SS Carpathia, which aided the rescue efforts of the doomed ocean liner.
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The biscuit, or cracker, depending on which side of the Atlantic you're living, was kept by James Fenwick, a passenger onboard the SS Carpathia, which aided the rescue efforts of the doomed ocean liner.
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