Titanic Survivor's Letter Sets Record with £300,000 Auction Sale

Titanic passenger's letter with "prophetic line" sells for almost $400,000 at auction

Archibald Gracie wrote of the ill-fated steamship: "It is a fine ship but I shall await my journeys end before I pass judgment on her."

A haunting voice from the Titanic: Survivor's letter fetches over Rs 3 crore at UK auction

A rare letter penned by Colonel Archibald Gracie, one of the Titanic's most prominent survivors, has been sold for a staggering $399,000 (approximately Rs 3.4 crore) at an auction in England, rekindling memories of one of history's most haunting maritime tragedies. The letter, described as "museum grade" by Wiltshire-based auction house Henry Aldridge & Son, attracted fierce bidding before being secured by a private US collector, the auction hou…

A letter from one of the survivors of the sinking Titanic in 1912 sold at an auction in England for five times the starting price, 300 thousand British pounds (143 million forints).

Letter Written Onboard Titanic Before It Sank Sells for Almost $400,000 at Auction

LONDON—A lettercard penned by one of the Titanic’s most well-known survivors from onboard the ship, days before it sank, has sold for 300,000 pounds ($399,000) at auction. In the note, written to the seller’s great-uncle on April 10, 1912, first-class passenger Archibald Gracie wrote of the ill-fated steamship: “It is a fine ship but I shall await my journeys end before I pass judgment on her.” The letter was sold to a private collector from the…

Letter written onboard the Titanic before it sank sells for almost $400,000

The lettercard, penned by one of the Titanic’s best-known survivors just days before the steamship sank, smashed estimates to sell for £300,000 ($399,000) at a UK auction.

‘Prophetic’ letter written by Titanic survivor sells for nearly $400,000 at auction

When first-class passenger Col. Archibald Gracie boarded the Titanic in Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912, he drafted a letter to a friend.“It is a fine ship,” he wrote, “but I shall await my journey’s end before I pass judgment on her.”Five days later, the “unsinkable” ship struck an iceberg and sank in the frigid waters off Newfoundland, killing some 1,500 of the vessel’s roughly 2,200 passengers.Now, Gracie’s eerily prescient letter has…