--- description: A crew dispatched to gather bodies found the chair in 1912 title: Titanic Deckchair Sells for 100,000 Pounds at Auction image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5e6bdd071e2c4df/6987ebc0a988ca12706b0414/titanic-deck-chair.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [england](/tag/england/) ## england Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Titanic Deckchair Sells for 100,000 Pounds at Auction by [Eliza Gray](/author/eliza-gray/) ## Eliza Gray Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 18, 2015 7:45 PM CUT  A mahogany deck chair from the Titanic recovered by the crew aboard the CS Minia is seen in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Canada, January 27, 2012. A mahogany deck chair from the Titanic recovered by the crew aboard the CS Minia is seen in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Canada, January 27, 2012.Paul Darrow—Reuters /Landov by [Eliza Gray](/author/eliza-gray/) ## Eliza Gray Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 18, 2015 7:45 PM CUT **Correction appended, April 21** A deckchair that was pulled from the wreckage of the Titanic more than a century ago has found a new home. The chair was sold at an auction in England on Saturday, fetching just over 100,000 pounds including taxes and fees, or nearly $150,000, a representative of the Wiltshire auction house told TIME. The chair sat on the first-class deck of the luxury ship that sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912, killing 1,500 people. It was discovered floating on the surface of the ocean by a crew dispatched to recover bodies from the wreckage in 1912, the [_Guardian_](http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/apr/18/titanic-deckchair-sells-for-100000-at-auction-in-wiltshire "undefined") reports. The chair originally belonged to a member of that crew, and then to an English Titanic collector who owned it for the last 15 years and used it as a display item in his home. It was sold by auctioneer Henry Aldridge and Son to an unnamed collector in the U.K. **Correction:** The original version of the photo caption accompanying this story misstated the location of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. It is in Halifax, Canada. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3827503/titanic-deckchair-sells-auction/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3827503/titanic-deckchair-sells-auction/"},"headline":"Titanic Deckchair Sells for 100,000 Pounds at Auction","datePublished":"2015-04-18T19:45:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:30:03.803Z","description":"A crew dispatched to gather bodies from the water found the chair in 1912","url":"https://time.com/3827503/titanic-deckchair-sells-auction/","keywords":["england","History"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5e6bdd071e2c4df/6987ebc0a988ca12706b0414/titanic-deck-chair.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Gray","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-gray/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb5e6bdd071e2c4df/6987ebc0a988ca12706b0414/titanic-deck-chair.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"MAHOGANY DECK CHAIR RECOVERED FROM TITANIC IS SEEN IN THE MARITIME MUSEUM OF THE ATLANTIC IN HALIFAX","caption":"MAHOGANY DECK CHAIR RECOVERED FROM TITANIC IS SEEN IN THE MARITIME MUSEUM OF THE ATLANTIC IN HALIFAX","creditText":"Paul Darrow—Reuters /Landov","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/england/","name":"england"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3827503/titanic-deckchair-sells-auction/","name":"Titanic Deckchair Sells for 100,000 Pounds at Auction"}}]}] ```