Titanic artifacts auction blocked by federal judge

A federal judge in Virginia blocked an auction of over 100 century-old artifacts that were salvaged from the shipwrecked RMS Titanic vessel, calling their selling “an apparent threat” to the collection’s integrity and preservation. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith ordered RMS Titanic (RMST) — the company with ex

The salvage company that has been awarded the rights to recover, but not sell, items that sunk with the ship, has proposed selling 100 of them.

Some past items from the 1912 wreckage have sold for huge amounts.