AN EXCEPTIONAL piece of Titanic history which has stayed in the same family for decades is being sold by a Bridlington man.
The item is a rare surviving telegram transmitted from the old Horsea Naval Station on April 15, 1912, chronicling the last hours of the doomed vessel.
It reads: "From Flag to General 15/4/12 4.15 Horsea to all ships. Nothing further from Titanic,
her last signals came at 12.27 this morning, the operator on Virginian says that signals were blurred and ended abruptly, the liner Baltic reported herself within 200 miles of Titanic and says she is speeding to her to help her."
Geoff Gibson is selling the telegram for a minimum of £2,000, but it was originally bought for just ten shillings by his grandfather, CW Gibson, aboard a Royal Navy Ship during the First World War.
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