Last Titanic photos set to fetch up to £15,000

THE last photographs of the Titanic, snapped by a woman accompanying her 11-year old nephew on the doomed trip from Southampton to Queenstown, are included in an album set to fetch up to stg£15,000 at auction.

The album includes a photo of the enormous White Star liner taken from a pilot tender two-and-a-half miles off Queenstown, now Cobh the last known image of Titanic before she sailed for America and disaster.

The emotive pictures were taken by Kate Odell who, with nephew Jack Odell, disembarked at Queenstown for a touring holiday of Ireland. The 23 photos, featuring nine taken on or off the ship, are estimated to fetch between stg£12,000 £15,000 at Christie's maritime sale in London on May 21.