This claim that the WhiteStarLine chose aesthetics over lives hinges on a crucial conversation between Alexander Carlisle, the managing director of the shipyard where Titanic was built, and his customer Bruce Ismay, head of WhiteStarLine, in 1910.
Other pieces include white ceramic dishes stamped with the ship's red "White StarLine" logo and leather handbags that some of the ship's pursers stuffed with money from safe-deposit boxes.
Other notables nominated by local people for the honour are toymaker Frank Hornby, trade union activist Bessie Bradock, and shipping magnate and founder of the WhiteStarLine, Henry Ishmay.