Lot 24
A collection of four Titanic Marconigrams 4
15 April 2014, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge£5,000 - £7,000
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A collection of four Titanic Marconigrams
Sent from on board the RMS Carpathia, 17 April 1912.
0655am.
To/ Miss A Whiteman, Palmyra New Jersey.
Safe and well, Gus.
0700am.
To/Stengel and Rothschild, Newark NJ.
Have two automobiles to meet Carpathia, have some survivors with me. CE Henry Stengel
0702am.
To/ VJ Minahan, Green Bay Wisconsin.
Lillian and Daisy Minahan at my home, come ten seventy five Broad St. Newark, CE Henry Stengel
0709am.
To/ Simousin, Rue St Louis LeGrand, Paris.
Sydney missing not definite news yet, Christy
(4)
0655am.
To/ Miss A Whiteman, Palmyra New Jersey.
Safe and well, Gus.
0700am.
To/Stengel and Rothschild, Newark NJ.
Have two automobiles to meet Carpathia, have some survivors with me. CE Henry Stengel
0702am.
To/ VJ Minahan, Green Bay Wisconsin.
Lillian and Daisy Minahan at my home, come ten seventy five Broad St. Newark, CE Henry Stengel
0709am.
To/ Simousin, Rue St Louis LeGrand, Paris.
Sydney missing not definite news yet, Christy
(4)
Footnotes
RMS Carpathia received the emergency calls from Titanic late on April 14th 1912 and steamed at full speed through the ice field, arriving at 4am the following morning. By 0830 she had picked up all the surviving lifeboats and had rescued 705 passengers and crew. Not having sufficient resources on board to complete her voyage to Europe, she returned to New York, arriving there on April 18th. These Marconigrams form part of a large body of signals sent by the survivors to friends, family and business connections after the disaster.
Charles Emil Henry Stengel 54, and his wife Annie 44, boarded in Cherbourg and were saved in lifeboats 1 & 5. Lillian and Daisy Minahan 37 & 33, boarded in Southampton and were saved from lifeboat 14. No identification for Christy and Gus.