{"id":2276,"date":"2025-03-19T12:03:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/rms-titanic-victims-letter-to-be-auctioned\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T12:03:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:03:56","slug":"rms-titanic-victims-letter-to-be-auctioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/rms-titanic-victims-letter-to-be-auctioned\/","title":{"rendered":"RMS Titanic victim&#039;s letter to be auctioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-03-19 12:03:55<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A letter penned by a teenage passenger on the RMS Titanic may go under the hammer for \u00a330,000.<BR><br \/>\nThomas Cupper Mudd described the luxury passenger liner as a &#8220;magnificent palace&#8221; and how the 883ft long vessel felt &#8220;so steady that you would hardly know it was moving&#8221; to his mum when it was docked in Ireland before it continued on its way to New York City, USA.<BR><br \/>\nThis was days before he and 1,495 other passengers &#8211; who were on the ship&#8217;s maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to the Big Apple &#8211; died as the ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of April 15, 1912 after it struck an iceberg at 11.40pm the previous day.<BR><br \/>\nLondon&#8217;s Forum Auctions described the note &#8211; which will be sold on Thursday, March 27 &#8211; as &#8220;rare and remarkable&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nThe firm added: &#8220;[It is a] lasting testament to the most famous maritime disaster in recorded history.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-03-19 12:03:55 A letter penned by a teenage passenger on the RMS Titanic may go under the hammer for \u00a330,000. Thomas Cupper Mudd described the luxury passenger liner as a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions\/2278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}