Titanic Survivor’s letter sold for £ 300,000 auctioned

A letter written by Titical Passenger Days before the ship was sinking was sold for a record £ 300,000 ($ 400,000) at the UK.

The letter of Colonel Archibald Grace was purchased by an anonymous buyer at Henry Aldridge and Wiltshire’s Auction House on Sunday, priced at five times higher than 60,000 British pounds who were expected to bring.

The letter is described as “prophetic” as he records Kohl Gracey, telling an acquaintance that he will “wait for the end of my trip” before I judge the “fine ship”.

The letter is on April 10, 1912, the day he boarded the Titanic in Southampton and five days before he sank after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic.

Kohl Gissie was one of about 2,200 passengers and a crew aboard Titanic sails to New York. More than 1500 were killed in the disaster.

The first -class passenger wrote the letter from Cabin C51. It was published when the ship moored in Queenstown, Ireland, on April 11, 1912, it was also placed in London on April 12.

The auctioner who facilitated the sale said the letter attracted the highest price of any correspondence written on board the Titanic.

Kohl Gissie’s story about sinking is among the most famous.

Later, he wrote the book The Truth About Titanic, recalling experience on board the doomed ocean.

He told how he survives by shaking from the overturned rescue boat in the icy waters.

More than half of the men who initially reached the rescue boat or died of exhaustion or cold, he writes.

Although Kohl Gissie was experiencing disaster, his health was severely affected by the hypothermia and physical injuries he suffered.

He fell into a coma on December 2, 1912 and died of complications from diabetes two days later.