watch that stopped when the Lusitania sank ...

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A stopwatch belonging to one of the survivors from the Lusitania ocean liner that sunk in 1915, has been valued at £1,000 despite its inoperative state.


Frank Holman, a waiter on the liner, was wearing the timepiece when the ship was hit by a German torpedo.

The watch stopped as soon as Holman was flung into the Atlantic Ocean, where he was forced to tread water for five hours before he was eventually rescued.

His daughter Barbara Wiffen who has held the stopwatch since her father's passing told the BBC: 'My late father, Frank Holman, was on the Lusitania at the time she was torpedoed.  "The torpedo struck I understand at twelve minutes past two and his watch stopped at two twenty eight when he hit the water."

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