When 'Greeny' swapped his trousers for a pet monkey - life on a sailing ship in the Titanic era

Read 'monkey business' an extract from Sons of Gentlemen - in the days of the Titanic. The Adventures of Greeny, an apprentice on tall ships 1908 to 1912 by Captain T. B. Greenhalgh, just published for the Kindle. Yes, he was my grandfather!

Greeny, an apprentice on board the four-masted, Standard Oil Company barque 'Brilliant', is in the Java Sea. And he has swapped a pair of old trousers for a Sumatra monkey. There are about a dozen monkeys on board, but he is the only apprentice to own one...

And the monkeys get up to all sorts of tricks.

Extract at NanuqMedia

Sons of Gentlemen is available as an eBook from Amazon.

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Titanic captain's cigar box found in England - strange, didn't it sink with him?

On April 14, 1912, At 11:40PM, the Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank two hours and forty minutes later, killing an estimated 1,500 people.

The captain, Edward John Smith (left), went down with the ship and his body was never recovered.

Now, a cigar box once owned by the captain has apparently been discovered gathering dust on a bedroom cabinet in a house in Merseyside, England.

The walnut humidor is expected to fetch between £10,000 and £20,000 at auction in Liverpool today.

Just one question: didn't he take it with him? Perhaps he was dying for a smoke and couldn't concentrate...


BBC STORY

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