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The back of the biscuit is charred slightly from its encounter with a German U-boat...<br />
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Crumbs...An incredibly rare 104-year-old biscuit that survived the Lusitania disaster is now tipped to sell for £5,000.<br />
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The round hard tack biscuit was found in one of the lifeboats from the Cunard passenger liner after it was torpedoed by a German U-boat in the First World War.<br />
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Almost 1,200 out of 1,962 civilian passengers and crew on board died in the atrocity that sparked outrage on both sides of the Atlantic.<br />
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Sapper Percy Pennington, of the Royal Engineers, was stationed in County Cork, found the snack in a lifeboat and later posted it home to his parents.