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Tue 10 Oct 2009US court to consider claim for ownership of 'Titanic' artefacts
NEARLY A century after the Titanicsank on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic, the ocean liner will be the subject of four days of court hearings in Norfolk, Virginia, this week.
The US company RMS Titanic, Inc, which has recovered thousands of items from the wreck, has told the court it wants to be declared the legal owner of these artefacts in order to recover some of the costs of salvage. RMS Titanic is a subdivision of Premier Exhibitions of Atlanta, Georgia, which shows nearly 6,000 pieces of china and personal objects from the liner in an exhibition that travels the world.
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