Letter Written Onboard Titanic Before It Sank Sells for Almost $400,000 at Auction

Titanic bow is seen during a dive at the resting place of the Titanic's wreck, in July 1986. WHOI Archives/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Handout via Reuters

LONDON—A lettercard penned by one of the Titanic’s most well-known survivors from onboard the ship, days before it sank, has sold for 300,000 pounds ($399,000) at auction.

In the note, written to the seller’s great-uncle on April 10, 1912, first-class passenger Archibald Gracie wrote of the ill-fated steamship: “It is a fine ship but I shall await my journeys end before I pass judgment on her.”