A postcard written by the wireless operator Titanic could sell for up to $ 15,000

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Written by Ali, CNN

A postcard written by a member of the RMS Titanic crew just a few weeks before the dive is put up for auction and could fetch $ 15,000.

Jack Phillips, the ship’s main wireless operator, wrote the postcard in March 1912 to his sister, Elsie, while in the port of Belfast, Ireland, where the Titanic was built. Construction was completed in late March and he left the dock on April 2, 1912.

The correspondence, written on a 5.5-inch by 3.5-inch postcard, shows an image of the Titanic during its construction and has the postmark in Belfast.

The card reads in part: “Very busy working late. I hope to leave on Monday and arrive in So’ton (Southampton) on Wednesday afternoon.

The message ends with the words “Love, Jack.”

The postcard presents a picture of the Belfast Titanic.

The postcard presents a picture of the Belfast Titanic. Credit: RR auction

“Phillips often chose postcards depicting the ship he served,” said Bobby Livingston, Boston-based executive vice president of RR Auction, which sells the card.

“According to our research, only five of Elsie’s 300 postcards were related to the Titanic, and only two featured the ship as the front photo, making it an exceptionally rare example,” Livingston said in a statement. .

Livingston says Phillips is a forgotten hero who saved many lives as the Titanic began to sink. Phillips worked tirelessly to send messages to other ships for help in rescuing passengers and crew.

On the night of April 14, 1912, in the North Atlantic, the Titanic hit an iceberg that would kill more than 1,500 passengers and crew. According to RR Auction, 25-year-old Phillips abandoned the ship while water flooded her legs. He arrived on an overturned, foldable lifeboat, where he would die from exposure to extreme cold.

The auction for Phillips’ postcard is set to end on April 14. RR Auction says the postcard is estimated at $ 15,000.

This is not the first relic sale on the Titanic. In 2015, a first-class lunch menu on the luxury ship was sold at auction for $ 88,000, along with a letter to a man who allegedly bribed a rescue boat crew to leave the ship, rather than to save more people for $ 7,500.

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