Survival message from Titanic, written on board, sells approximately $ 400,000

Days before Titanic struck an iceberg, a first -class passenger, Colonel Archibald Grace, described the ship in a written message while on board: “It is a wonderful ship but I will wait for the end of my journey before he issued the ruling on it.”

Colonel Grace’s journey on Titanic was a catastrophic end, but he was better than most of them.

It was on the upper deck of the ship, and it dominates iron, as it decreased in the sea. He said that he was “moved” under the water before reaching a raft, as he spent hours floating on the ice water before saving it.

The letter, which he wrote, was sold on Saturday at an auction for $ 399,000 (or 300,000 pounds), according to Henry Al -Dridge and his son, an auction house in Wiltshire, England.

The auction house said The letter, written in handwriting, was sent to an unidentified European ambassador, the great uncle of the seller. The head shows a triple red mark with a white star and printed with words “on the RMS Titanic”.

The message was dated on April 10, 1912, the day when the ship sailed from Southampton, England. On April 12, a postcard was placed in London, where it was received at the Waldorf Hotel. Titanic hit an iceberg before midnight on April 14 and sank the next day.

Jupiter’s headquarters for the message was in the United States, according to Andro Al -Dridge, the administrative director of Henry Al -Dridge and his son. The auction house has not publicly identified Jupiter or the seller.

Mr. Derridge said in an email that the stories of the ship’s passengers “are listed through souvenirs” and that “their memories remain alive through these elements.”

The auction house initially expected the message To sell up to 60,000 pounds, or approximately $ 80,000.

Colonel Grace, a graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, was a high -level survivor of the Titanic disaster, where about 1500 people perished.

He died eight months later, In December 1912One of the complications caused by diseases, but his doctors and family said that the real reason is that he did not recover from the shock of the Titanic disaster, according to the New York Times.

After Colonel Grace was saved, work began to work on “The truth about Titanic,” A book on his experience that was published after her death. New York Times Review the book “There is something effective in lacking directly and cohesion in narration,” he said.

Colonel Grace said in an interview with New York Tribune He was on the upper deck of the ship when she had a wave that sent other people outside. He managed to stay and hold the copper iron.

He said: “When the ship fell, I had to give up, and it was transformed around and around it when it looked endless time.” “In the end, I came to the surface to find the sea a mass of interlocking debris.”

He said that he grabbed a wooden and then saw a raft of fabric and work. He reached the raft and began to try to save others. They finally arrived at a rescue ship, RMS CARPATHIA.

“The hours that passed before we were captured by the Caribbean were the longest and most terrifying that I ever spent,” Colonel Grace said, according to the Tribune newspaper. “From a practical point of view without any feeling of feeling due to ice water, we were almost decreased from fatigue.”

Colonel Grace was a firm figure in New York and the Washington Association.

His father was an officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Colonel Grace was also a descendant of Archibald Grace, who built the residence of the official New York City mayor, Gracie Mansion, in 1799.

After the news of Titanic drowned to the United States, it was not known whether Colonel Greisi had survived, his wife, Constance Shack Grace, was reported for relevant reasons.

Mrs. Grace was not on board, but she left the city Avoid calling In the trial of another woman’s madness, Mary E. Jag, According to the New York Times.

In the days after the Titanic disaster, the daughter of Grace, Edith Jaraisi, was asked about the location of her mother, who said she did not know, and about the fate of her father, I mentioned the Times.

She said that Colonel Greisi was in Europe recovering from an operation and said in a message that he would return to Decor much stronger.

She said: “It is very terrible to think about it, but I hope against hope that he will have faced the dangers of the accident without harm.”