Titanic survivor's heart-shaped pendant to be auctioned in Cork

A brooch and pendant which Florence Agnes Angle cherished will come under the hammer in Carrigtwohill this month

A sandstone heart-shaped pendant with a gold-plated chain.

The last she saw of her husband was from the lifeboat. He was waving to her from the upper decks of the Titanic. Florence Agnes Angle, who died in 1969 aged 93, never remarried. A brooch and pendant which the Titanic survivor and nurse cherished will come under the hammer at the next Lynes and Lynes auction in Co Cork.

Florence eventually settled in Leamington Spa in her native Warwickshire. She rarely talked about that tragic night. But when in 1961 the Coventry Evening Telegraph reported the death of Finnish-born Helga Hirvonen in New York — describing her as the last survivor of the Titanic — the elderly but feisty Mrs Angle went to the newspaper office to set the record straight.