A few days before the Titanic hit an iceberg, first -class passenger, Colonel Archibald Gracey, the ship described in a letter written during the board: “This is a fine ship but I will look forward to the end of my journey before I decide against him.”
Titanic’s Colonel Gracey’s journey was a catastrophic consequence, but he did better than most.
As he drowned in the sea, he was called the top of the ship. She said that she had “rolled” under the water before going to Vela, where she spent several hours to float in ice water before she was rescued.
According to Henry Aldridge, the auction house in Wiltshire, England, he wrote that the letter was sold at auction on Saturday at the auction of $ 399,000 (or £ 300,000) at auction.
The auction house said that the letter written in the curse’s handwriting was addressed to an unidentified European ambassador, the vendor’s great-farmer. The letterhead shows a triangular red flag with a white star and is printed with the word “RMS Titanic on the board”.
The letter started from Southampton, England on April 8, 2012. On April 12, it was postmarked in London, where it was obtained at the Waterf Hotel. The Titanic hit an iceberg just before midnight April 14 and drowned the next day.
According to Andrew Aldriz, managing director of Henry Aldridge, the buyer of the letter was located in the United States. The auction house could not publicly identify the buyer or the seller.
Mr. Aldridge said in an email that the stories of the ship’s passengers were “called by the monuments” and “their memories are saved through those items.”
The auction house was initially expected to sell this letter up to 60,000 pounds or about 000 80,000.
At West Point, Colonel Gracey, a graduate of the United States Military Academy, survived a high-profile of the Titanic disaster, where about 5 people died.
According to the New York Times, he died eight months later on December 12, but his doctors and his family said that the real reason was that he never recovered from the Titanic Times in the New York Times.
After the rescue of Colonel Grace, he started working on “The Truth of the Titanic”, a book about his experience that was posted posthumously. The book’s New York Times reviews, “The narrative contains something effective in lack of directness and solidarity.”
Colonel Gracey said in an interview to the New York Tribune that when he was called the top of the ship, it was hit by a wave when it was sent to other people overboard. He was able to stay and caught a brass railing.
“When the ship was sinking, I was forced to go, and I wandered around for an intermittent time I wandered around,” he said. “Finally I came to the surface to find the sea a mass of destruction of the sea.”
He said that he had caught a wooden grating and then saw a canvas-o-cork vella. He made it to Vela and began to try to rescue others. They finally arrived on a rescue ship, at RMS Carpathia.
Colonel Gracey said, “The time that the time spent before Carpathia was the longest and most frightened that I had ever spent.” “We were almost exhausting without any sensation of feeling due to virtually ice water.”
Colonel Grace was an established figure from the New York and Washington Society.
During the Civil War, his father was an officer in the Confederate Army. Colonel was a descendant of Graceio Arkibald Gracey, who built the Gracei Mansion, the official residence of New York City, in 999.
It was reported that his wife, Constance Shack Gracey, was reported to be missing due to the news of the Titanic sinking to the United States, and whether Colonel Gracey was alive.
Mrs. Gracey was not on the ship, but according to the New York Times, another Society left the city to avoid sub -money in the mad trial of Mary E Gauge.
In the days of the Titanic disaster, Graceis’s daughter, Edith Gracey, was asked about her mother’s position, which she said he didn’t know, and about her father’s fate, The Times reported.
He said that Colonel Grace was recovering from an operation in Europe and in a letter that he would return home with a more powerful constitution.
He said, “It’s terrifying to think, but I hope he has come through the dangers of accident without any harm.”
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