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Colonel Archibald Gracie's surviving letter from the Titanic sells at auction for £300,000

Politiko 2025-04-27 19:17:46

Colonel Archibald Gracie's surviving letter from the Titanic sells at

One of the most vivid descriptions of the Titanic tragedy, a letter written by Colonel Archibald Gracie, one of the ill-fated ship's best-known survivors, was recently sold at an auction in England for the impressive sum of 300,000 pounds (about $399,000).

The letter, written on April 10, 1912 – the day Gracie boarded the Titanic in Southampton – describes the ship as “a fine ship”, adding that “I will wait until my voyage is over before I judge her”. It was posted from Queenstown on April 11 and from London the following day.

The letter, described as a "museum-quality piece" by Wiltshire auction house Henry Aldridge & Son, sold for five times its original estimate of £60,000. Auctioneers highlighted the extraordinary rarity of the document, noting that it is one of the few original materials Gracie herself had saved from the tragedy that claimed the lives of around 1,500 people.

Archibald Gracie managed to escape by clinging to an overturned lifeboat and was later transferred to the lifeboat RMS Carpathia. He summarized his experiences from the tragic night in the book "The Truth About the Titanic", which remains one of the most detailed accounts of the event.

Unfortunately, Gracie never fully recovered from the effects of hypothermia suffered during the drowning and died in late 1912 from complications from diabetes.

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