Letter written on board the Titanic before it sank sells for record £300,000

It is the highest price ever achieved for letter written on board the Titanic, the auctioneers said (Picture: PA/Getty)A letter written by one of most well-known survivors of the Titanic disaster has sold for a record-breaking £300,000 at auction.First-class passenger Colonel Archibald Gracie wrote The Truth About The Titanic, which described his experience of the April 15, 1912, tragedy that claimed 1,500 lives.The letter card is dated April 10, the day he boarded, and is postmarked Quee