Antique Enamel Maritime Spoon, RMS CORSICAN, Uncommon Ocean Liner, Handwork, N/Res
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:330837 |
R.M.S. (S.S.) "Corsican, "British Passenger Vessel of 11, 419 tons built in 1907 by Barclay Curle & Company Glasgow, Yard No 467 for the Allan Line S.S Co Ltd (j & A Allan), Read more at wrecksite: https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?32066British Passenger Vessel of 11, 419 tons built in 1907 by Barclay Curle & Company Glasgow, Yard No 467 for the Allan Line S.S Co Ltd (j & A Allan), Read more at wrecksite: https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?32066was built 1907, out of Glasglow, for All...an Lines Co. Smaller, it seems to have been used for
lesser routes, a lot to Canada, perhaps explaining its early, non didasterous crash into the iceberg.
Used extensively as a Trans-Atlantic troop transport carrier, WW I. Lost off cape Freels South, Newfoundland, 1923,
after bottoming out on a reef, all hands rescued. I don't think this spoon is all that common, note the hand engraved
name, also the 2 pieces, joined at the back of the bowl.
Note a spot in the bowl, else perfect condition, no bends, no chips,
body seems to be brass, quite bright, maybe guilded.
No maker's marks, hallmarks or any ID's as to maker.
Did note this old newspaper article researching this guy, I'll paste it in for you readers out there:
From the Chicago American , Saturday, April 20, 1912, p. 2, c. 3:
A tale of terror that spread over the sea on the waves of the wireless as the Titanic went down was told in Chicago to-day by a passenger from the S. S. Corsican.
Henry Pratt, who, with his family, passed through Chicago on their way from London to take up a homestead in Freeman County, Idaho, related his experiences as a passenger on the Corsican. The Corsican, running on reduced speed, passed through the same zone as the Titanic and she struck an iceberg.
“The ‘S.O.S.’ call of the titanic was picked u p by the operator on our ship, ” said Mr. Bratt. “The officers of the Corsican tried to keep it a secret. The next day it leaked out and soon the whole ship knew it.
“I have no idea how far we were from the Titanic when she went down. It does not seem, however, that we could have been very far. Our ship did not veer from her course.
“The sea was full of ice all around us. We were running not more than five knots that night when we struck a berg. I felt the shock very plainly as we grated past. I was on deck and made inquiries. There was no damage to our ship because we were running so slowly. We were passing the great looming bank of ice when I got on deck. There was a concert and lots of the passengers did not know of the collision.
“The next day the secret of the Titanic’s fatal collision came out.”
lesser routes, a lot to Canada, perhaps explaining its early, non didasterous crash into the iceberg.
Used extensively as a Trans-Atlantic troop transport carrier, WW I. Lost off cape Freels South, Newfoundland, 1923,
after bottoming out on a reef, all hands rescued. I don't think this spoon is all that common, note the hand engraved
name, also the 2 pieces, joined at the back of the bowl.
Note a spot in the bowl, else perfect condition, no bends, no chips,
body seems to be brass, quite bright, maybe guilded.
No maker's marks, hallmarks or any ID's as to maker.
Did note this old newspaper article researching this guy, I'll paste it in for you readers out there:
From the Chicago American , Saturday, April 20, 1912, p. 2, c. 3:
A tale of terror that spread over the sea on the waves of the wireless as the Titanic went down was told in Chicago to-day by a passenger from the S. S. Corsican.
Henry Pratt, who, with his family, passed through Chicago on their way from London to take up a homestead in Freeman County, Idaho, related his experiences as a passenger on the Corsican. The Corsican, running on reduced speed, passed through the same zone as the Titanic and she struck an iceberg.
“The ‘S.O.S.’ call of the titanic was picked u p by the operator on our ship, ” said Mr. Bratt. “The officers of the Corsican tried to keep it a secret. The next day it leaked out and soon the whole ship knew it.
“I have no idea how far we were from the Titanic when she went down. It does not seem, however, that we could have been very far. Our ship did not veer from her course.
“The sea was full of ice all around us. We were running not more than five knots that night when we struck a berg. I felt the shock very plainly as we grated past. I was on deck and made inquiries. There was no damage to our ship because we were running so slowly. We were passing the great looming bank of ice when I got on deck. There was a concert and lots of the passengers did not know of the collision.
“The next day the secret of the Titanic’s fatal collision came out.”
