‘Poignant’ postcard from excited Titanic passenger up for auction

A postcard written by a first-class passenger on the Titanic will be auctioned later this month.

A postcard written by a first-class passenger on the Titanic will go up for auction later this month. Richard William Smith, a British businessman, scrawled a message in pencil to a Mrs Olive Dakin in Norwich, England. The card is postmarked 3.45 p.m., April 11, 1912 – three days before the transatlantic liner struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage. Smith was one of around 1,500 people who perished.

“She was only going a quarter of the way as she was getting off in Queenstown, so he must have asked her to post the card,” Aldridge said. “Titanic had just stopped in Queenstown to take on a load of passengers – little was anyone onboard aware what was on the horizon just 80 hours or so into the future,” he added. “It’s a very powerful and poignant object because this is one of the last things that Mr Smith wrote, first and foremost.

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