Titanic photos fetch fortune at auction

THE last known photographs of the world’s most famous liner fetched stg£14,100 at auction yesterday.

The photographs of the Titanic were bought at Christie’s by American Stanley Lehrer, a Titanic historian who boasts the world’s largest private collection of memorabilia relating to the doomed White Star liner.

The photos were snapped by Miss Kate Odell who was accompanying her 11-year old nephew, Jack Odell, on the trip from Southampton to Queenstown, now Cobh, on the first leg of the Titanic’s maiden voyage.