A letter written by a passenger on the Titanic describing the 'wonderful passage' - hours before the ship hit an iceberg - has sold at auction for £119,000 ($200,000).
Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said the handwritten note was bought by an anonymous telephone bidder at an auction in Devizes, western England, on Saturday.
The price, which includes a fee known as the buyer's premium, topped the pre-sale estimate of £100,000 ($168,000).
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Just think, in a few years they can sell letters written from Salisbury as it was going under !
If anyone could care less,inflatable life rafts had actually been invented when the Titanic was launched.You know,the type that has a cord you pull and it self inflates.The shipbuilders laughed when approached by the manufacturers,stating "why would we need life rafts,the Titanic is unsinkable"? The rest is history.
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