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Titanic premonition letter up for auction
5:30am Friday 30th March 2007
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A CHILLING premonition of the Titanic disaster was written in a letter by a passenger on board the doomed liner that set sail from Southampton in 1912.
The remarkable letter has only now emerged, nearly 100 years after the ship's sinking.
A businessman named Alfred Rowe described the ship as "too big" and a "positive danger" in a letter home to his wife Constance.
The letter, on Titanic headed notepaper, has now been made available for auction by Mr Rowe's family.
It will be sold alongside a heart-rending diary account by his widow, written after she heard news of the sinking.
Full story in today's Daily Echo.
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aghast, southampton says...
9:21pm Fri 30 Mar 07
how the sun was so hot it would crash into the sea, or how he feared that gravity was likely to fail on 15th March 1895, causing all horses to explode or some such nonsense. He got lucky with the Titanic letter.
FOR AUCTION: Memorabilia including Alfred Rowe's letter written on board Titanic and his wife's anguished diary.
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lake, totton says...
12:32pm Fri 30 Mar 07