A sailor called David Blair forgot to leave behind a key as the Titanic set off on its maiden voyage. Without it, his shipmates were unable to open a locker in the crow's nest containing a pair of ...

A sailor who was almost part of the crew on the tragic Titanic could have accidentally played a key role in the catastrophic sinking. Second officer David Blair was bumped off crew of Titanic's ...

DEVIZES, England, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- A simple key many think could have saved the Titanic from hitting the ... maiden voyage because second officer David Blair was taken off at the last minute ...

Second officer David Blair was ditched from the team to make ... He died aged 80 in 1955, and his Titanic locker key was sold at auction to a Chinese jeweller for £90,000. Adrian Stevenson ...

David Blair forgot to hand over a key to a crow's nest locker containing ... The retired teacher, from Derby, said Mr Blair sailed on the Titanic from Belfast to Southampton, but was "surplus ...

The vital key (above) and officer David Blair (below left) who had been assigned to carry it London: It was the key that could have saved the Titanic from disaster in 1912. The simple piece of ...

Catastrophically for the Titanic and the 1,522 lives lost with her, the key's owner, Second Officer David Blair, was removed from the crew at the last minute and in his haste forgot to hand it to ...

Second officer David Blair held the key during the short journey from Belfast, where Titanic was built, to the south coast. One of the lookouts on the Titanic told an inquiry into the sinking that ...

Scotsman David Blair was the original second officer on board the Titanic, but he was replaced before the ship left Southampton. In his haste to disembark, however, he forgot to leave a key ...

The tiny key, which carries a tag - Crows Nest Telephone Titanic - was for a cabin locker that stored the lookout's binoculars. It belonged to David Blair, Titanic's original second officer ...

A sailor called David Blair forgot to leave behind a key as the Titanic set off on its maiden voyage. Without it, his shipmates were unable to open a locker in the crow's nest containing a pair of ...