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Original Sections of Titanic Life Vest from one of the bodies recovered. WITH DOCUMENTATION showing debris recovered from disaster site.

Only bodies wearing lifejackets were recovered.

The two sections of one being material and the other being the cork filled substance that was in the life vest all were obtaned during the bodies recovering by the cable ship, Minia. When bodies were being recovered, the rescue crew would cut the life vest off the bodies and collect the body for burial. These two items were saved as a rememberance by one of the crew members and is now being offered for sale. T are very few items in any museum, that have artifacts like this on display. Titanic collectors, this is a rare oppertunity to own another part of the story line that touched the world forvever. The material measures 5 X 7 and the cork section measures 3 X 5 by 3 inches thick. This item will come with documentation showing that t were items that were recovered during the body recovery and it will come with photographs to show with the artifacts.

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Bodies Recovered from the Titanic disaster site

Crewmen of the Minia recover one of the bodies 3 weeks after the Titanic disaster

When Titanic sank, Halifax was the closest major seaport with rail connections. It was the base for ships searching and recovering bodies of Titanic victims. Three ships were dispatched from Halifax, Mackay-Bennett, Minia and Montmagny (along with Algerine from Saint John's, Newfoundland) found almost all of the Titanic victims. Other passing steamships in the North Atlantic found a handful of other bodies, which were immediately buried at sea. This role left Halifax with a legacy of grim memories, recovered wreckage, funerals and gravesites.

Captain Rostron of the liner Carpathia , who rescued Titanic 's survivors, radioed New York that he was considering taking them to Halifax, which would be a logical destination for his overloaded little liner. However, although Halifax was considerably closer, t was still considerable ice between Halifax and his location, so he turned south to New York. The three ships dispatched from Halifax found 328 bodies. ( Mackay-Bennett found 306. Minia found 17. Montmagny found 4. Algerine found 1.) Other passing steamers found another seven bodies ( Carpathia - 4, Oceanic - 3, Ilford -1).

In all only 335 bodies of the over 1500 Titanic victims were found, only one in five. Some bodies sank with Titanic . Winds and currents quickly scattered the remainder. While Mackay-Bennett , the first Halifax ship to arrive on site, recovered a large number of bodies, the ships that followed found bodies and wreckage thinly scattered over many hundreds of miles. The minister aboard Montmagny , the last search ship, also observed in June that the life jackets supporting the bodies seemed to be giving way and releasing bodies to sink. 150 Titanic victims are buried in Halifax. Of the 328 bodies recovered by Canadian vessels, 116 were buried at sea. 209 were brought back to Halifax. 59 were claimed by relatives and shipped to their home communities. The remaining 150 victims are buried in three emeteries: Fairview Lawn, Mount Olivet and Baron de Hirsch.

Over a third of the recovered bodies, 116, were buried at sea by the Halifax based vessels. Bodies that were damaged or decomposed beyond preservation were buried at sea. In addition, the first Halifax ship to recover bodies, Mackay-Bennett , found so many that her crew ran out of embalming supplies and had to bury many victims at sea as regulations only allowed embalmed bodies to be brought ashore. Not surprisingly, given the class attitudes of the period, it was the bodies of third class and crewmembers who were chosen to be buried at sea

The crew of the Halifax ships followed a very old tradition called "wreckwood" of keeping fragments of notable shipwrecks as reminders or commemorative objects. Often anonymous p...

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