White Star Line, RMS Titanic chart room key
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - extremely rare key with brass tag bearing the words Chart Room owned by Samuel Ernest Hemming who was Titanic's lamp trimmer. He carried the responsibility, among other duties, of trimming the lamps, which he did on 14 April 1912. The mortice lock key with brass ring is approximately 2.75 inches long and the tag is 2.25 inches long. This key, alongside Hemming's lamp trimmer's key which Henry Aldridge and Son sold on 31 March 2012 were sold at auction on 14 April 1992, belonged to Samuel Hemming. They have remained with the same vendor since then. Hemming gave evidence at the English Enquiry At about 7.15pm on 14th April Mr Murdoch told Hemming to go forward and see the fore scuttle hatch closed as we are in the vicinity of ice and there is a glow coming from that and I want everything dark before the bridge'. On the night of the disaster he was woken up by the ship's joiner and boatswain at midnight and went to the boat deck to assist in the loading and lowering of lifeboats. When all the boats were away he went up to the bridge but everyone had left so he went to the roof of the officers quarters where he and another seaman tried to free collapsible Boat B. 6th Officer Moody told them that the boat was not needed and as little time was left Hemming lowered himself into the water by climbing down the walls five minutes before the Titanic sunk. He was picked up by lifeboat number four which saved eight men and at around 3.45am with boat number twelve they rescued thirty men who were standing on the upturned hull of collapsible Boat B. There are numerous references to Hemming in A Night to Remember (1955) and Geoffrey Marcus's The Maiden Voyage (1969)
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