Letter by high-profile Titanic survivor sells for record £300,000

Archibald Gracie is known for writing one of the most vivid accounts of the 1912 maritime disasterA letter written by a survivor of the Titanic disaster has sold for a record £300,000 at auction.First-class passenger Col Archibald Gracie wrote The Truth About the Titanic, which described his experience of the 15 April 1912 tragedy that claimed 1,500 lives on the vessel’s journey to New York. Continue reading...

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Letter by high-profile Titanic survivor sells for record £300,000

Archibald Gracie is known for writing one of the most vivid accounts of the 1912 maritime disaster

A letter written by a survivor of the Titanic disaster has sold for a record £300,000 at auction.

First-class passenger Col Archibald Gracie wrote The Truth About the Titanic, which described his experience of the 15 April 1912 tragedy that claimed 1,500 lives on the vessel’s journey to New York. Continue reading...