Antiques Roadshow specialist Hilary Kay was left astonished by one visitor's account behind Titanic correspondence sent by his father, Sidney Daniels, who survived the tragic catastrophe.

At merely 18 years of age, Sidney was employed on the ship as a plate washer when it set sail in April 1912 on its inaugural voyage from Southampton to New York City.

During Sunday's instalment of the BBC programme, which was a rerun, Sidney's son and daughter brought along correspondence he had penned and disclosed their father's extraordinary survival story.

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Sidney's daughter explained to Hilary: "It was a Sunday, he was sound asleep, there was a banging and shouting and it was the night watchman.

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