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A small, corroded key for a locker on the Titanic has sold for £85,000 at auction. The key belonged to Sidney Sedunary, a 23-year-old ship's steward. 

A key which opened a life-jacket locker on the ill-fated Titanic has been sold for a whopping 85,000 pounds at one of the biggest auctions involving Titanic memorabilia in recent years. 

A letter written by the ship’s second officer, Charles Lightoller, which describes his parting moments with the vessel’s assistant surgeon, Dr John Simpson, fetched £34,000 at the auction.

In one of the letters, written onboard Titanic and posted at Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland, Wilde indicated he had misgivings about the new ship. “I still don’t like this ship… I have a queer feeling about it,” he wrote. 

The key, attached to a brass tag stamped "Locker 14 F Deck," was sent to Sedunary's pregnant widow after his body was recovered.

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RMS Titanic had been four days into a week-long transatlantic crossing from Southampton to New York when the supposedly “unsinkable” ship struck an iceberg on April, 14 1912.

The ship sank less than three hours later on April 15; 1,500 passengers and crew died and 710 survived.