The Titanic Survivor message was sold for 300,000 pounds at the auction

A letter written by a Titanic passenger a few days before SNK was sold for a standard 300,000 pounds ($ 400,000) at an auction in the UK.

Colonel Archibald Grace’s speech was purchased by an unknown buyer in Henry Al -Dardaj and his son Dar Al -Mazer in Wiltshir on Sunday, at a five -time price of 60,000 pounds, was expected to bring him.

The letter was described as “prophetic”, where Colonel Grace records as one of his acquaintances that he was “waiting for the end of my trip” before the judgment was issued on the “beautiful ship”.

The letter was dated on April 10, 1912, the day he had taken to Titanic in Southampton, and five days before it was drowned after it hit a iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Colonel Gracie was one of about 2,200 passengers and crew on board Titanic to New York. More than 1500 died in the disaster.

The first class passenger wrote, the letter from the C51 cabin. It was published when the ship was established in Queensown, Ireland, on April 11, 1912. A mark was also placed in London on April 12.

Al -Dalal, who facilitated the sale, said that the message attracted the highest price for any written correspondence on Titanic.

Colonel Greisi’s account of drowning is among the most famous.

Later on the book The Truth About the Titanic, recalling his experience on the lining of the condemned ocean.

He narrated how they survived the scrambled on a Najat boat that turned in the ice water.

More than half of the men who originally arrived at the survival boat either because of fatigue or cold.

Although Colonel Greisi survived the disaster, his health was severely affected by the lack of body and the physical injuries he suffered.

He fell into a coma on December 2, 1912, and he died due to the complications of diabetes two days later.