The Boat
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| Originally published | May 13, 2008 |
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| Authors | Nam Le |
| Publishers | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Page count | 228 |
| Genres | Short Story |
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| ID | 2914024 |
About The Boat
The Boat is a collection of short stories by the Vietnamese-Australian writer Nam Le, published in 2008. It contains seven short stories taking place all over the world, from Colombia and the United States to Vietnam, Tehran, Australia and Hiroshima.
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... The Boat was spotted getting into difficulty, with several people in the water, less than a mile from the French coast early on Wednesday afternoon...
'Remarkable' Titanic menu sells for £84,000 at Wiltshire auction
... More than 1,500 people died when the Titanic struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on 14 April 1912, causing The Boat to sink...
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... It said that might have contributed to the wrong assumption that people on board The Boat had been rescued by the Border Force...
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... A search was started but was later called off when no-one from The Boat was found to be missing...
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... According to the National Archives, there were 1,027 people on board The Boat, and more than 800 of them gave their last country of residence as somewhere in the Caribbean...
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... Park The Boat off Singapore, then paddle into Keppel Harbour in collapsible canoes under cover of darkness...
'Remarkable' Titanic menu sells for £84,000 at Wiltshire auction
By Chloe Harcombe and PA MediaBBC News
An evening Dinner menu for first-class passengers onboard the Rms Titanic has sold for £84,000 at auction.
It lists The Dinner - including oysters, beef, spring lamb and mallard Duck - Served on the evening of 11 April 1912.
More Than 1,500 people died when The Titanic struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on 14 April 1912, causing The Boat to sink.
The sale on Saturday was run by Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire.
Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said: " The Menu is a remarkable survivor from The Most famous Ocean Liner of all time. "
The Menu bears an embossed White Star Line flag and would have originally shown gilt lettering depicting the initials OSNC (Ocean Steamship Navigation Company) alongside the lettering " Rms Titanic ".
Mr Aldridge said The Menu showed signs of water immersion as the text was partially erased.
" This would point to The Menu having been subjected to the icy North Atlantic waters on The Morning of April 15 either having left The Ship with a survivor who was exposed to those cold sea waters or recovered on the person of one of those lost.
" Having spoken to the leading collectors of Titanic memorabilia globally and consulted with numerous museums with Titanic collections, we can find No Other surviving examples of a first-class April 11 Dinner menu. "
Other items in the auction included a Swiss-made pocket watch, owned by second-class Titanic passenger, Sinai Kantor. It sold for £97,000.
A first-class tartan-patterned deck blanket, which may have been used during The Rescue of passengers also sold for £96,000.
The auctioneer is well-known for selling memorabilia from the doomed Passenger Ship .
A Fur Coat owned by a first-class stewardess sold by them for £150,000 in 2017.
In the same year, for £126,000.
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Source of news: bbc.com
