Titanic survivor Archibald Gracie's 1912 lettercard sells for £300,000 ($399,000), six times the expected price.

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." ...

For that reason, auctions focused on Titanic memorabilia have continued to garner attention for more than 100 years after the accident. One recently auctioned item has been particularly newsworthy ...

While browsing online for historical information, retired teacher and historian James Kostuchuk stumbled across an auction ...

Other Titanic items that achieved big prices at the England-based auction house included the items from the family collection of Titanic passenger Ernest Portage Tomlin. Tomlin's manifest lists ...

This letter, dated April 10, 1912, has sold for £300,000 ($399,000) at Henry Aldridge and Son, an auction house specializing in Titanic memorabilia. It smashed its pre-sale estimate of £60,000 ...

fetching an astonishing £300,000 — five times its estimated value — and setting a new benchmark for Titanic memorabilia. Penned on April 10, 1912, the very day Gracie embarked on the doomed ...

Henry Aldridge & Son / AP When first-class passenger Col. Archibald Gracie boarded the Titanic in Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912, he drafted a letter to a friend. “It is a fine ship ...

A remarkable Titanic letter has just sold for nearly $400,000 at auction. The letter, written by Colonel Archibald Gracie, a ...

Aldridge, an auctioneer who specializes in the valuation of Titanic memorabilia, added that the sale was testament to the public's continued interest in the famous shipwreck. "The stories of those ...