Ominous letter written by 'prophetic' Titanic passenger sells for shocking six-figure sum at auction

A "prophetic" missive written aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic water liner has been auctioned successful England for a stunning sum.

The missive was sold by Wiltshire-based Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd. connected April 26. It was written by Archibald Gracie IV connected April 10, 1912 – conscionable 5 days earlier the vessel sank connected April 15.

Gracie penned the enactment connected April 10, erstwhile the vessel near Southampton, England. The missive was postmarked successful London 2 days later, connected April 12.

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"It is simply a good vessel but I shall await my journey's extremity earlier I walk judgement connected her," Gracie wrote compellingly successful the letter.

"The Oceanic is similar an aged person and portion she does not person the elaborate benignant and varied amusement of this large ship, inactive her seaworthy qualities and yacht-like quality marque maine miss her," helium added.

The auctioned-off missive was dated April 10 and postmarked April 12 - conscionable days earlier catastrophe struck. (Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd.; Getty Images)

As noted by Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd, Gracie woke up abruptly earlier midnight connected April 14 erstwhile the Titanic deed an iceberg.

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"He aboriginal wrote that much than fractional the men who had primitively reached the lifeboat either died from exhaustion oregon cold, softly slipping disconnected the keel during the night," the auction location said.

The British auctioneer who sold the missive called it "prophetic." (Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd.)

"As dawn broke, Col Gracie returned to New York City aboard the rescue vessel Carpathia, wherever helium began penning astir what helium had been through."

Though Gracie survived the shipwreck, his wellness was severely impacted by the disaster. 

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He suffered from hypothermia and assorted carnal injuries connected the time of the sinking.

In Dec. 1912, helium fell into a coma earlier dying of complications from diabetes.

The RMS Titanic, which near Southampton, England, connected her maiden voyage connected April 10, is seen here. (AP Photo/File)

Originally predicted to fetch the equivalent of $80,000, the 103-year-old portion of insubstantial was sold for an eye-popping 300,000 pounds, oregon $399,000.

Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge called the missive "one of the finest of its benignant known."

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"Not lone is it written by 1 of the astir important first-class passengers connected Titanic, [but] the missive itself contains the astir prophetic line: 'It is simply a good vessel but I shall await my journey's extremity earlier I walk judgement connected her,'" Aldridge said.

"Five days later, Titanic was astatine the bottommost of the North Atlantic."

The RMS Titanic has lcaptured the public's fascination for implicit a century. The ship's remains, seen here, were discovered successful the 1980s. (NOAA/Institute for Exploration/University of Rhode Island)

The auction is impervious of the public's enduring fascination with the Titanic implicit 110 years aft the tragic shipwreck. 

In November, a akin postcard from a Titanic unfortunate astatine different Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd. auction sold for $25,000.

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At the aforesaid auction, a Tiffany and Co. timepiece fixed to a Titanic rescuer went for conscionable nether $2 million, 10 times much than the archetypal guided price. 

Sydney Borchers contributed to this report.