Titanic survivor's letter sold for £300,000 at auction

A letter written by a Titanic passenger just days before the ship sank has sold for a record £300,000 ($400,000) at a UK auction, reports BBC.

Colonel Archibald Gracie's letter was purchased by an anonymous buyer at Henry Aldridge and Son auction house in Wiltshire on Sunday, at a price five times higher than the £60,000 it was expected to fetch.

The letter has been described as "prophetic", as it records Col Gracie telling an acquaintance he would "await my journey's end" before passing judgement on the "fine ship".

The letter was dated 10 April 1912, the day he boarded the Titanic in Southampton, and five days before it sank after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic.

The first-class passenger, wrote the letter from cabin C51. It was posted when the ship dropped anchor in Queenstown, Ireland, on 11 April 1912. It was also postmarked in London on 12 April.