{"id":285518,"date":"2026-07-22T15:42:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=285518"},"modified":"2026-07-22T16:01:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:01:04","slug":"titanic-passengers-letter-reveals-new-details-about-life-on-board-before-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/285518\/","title":{"rendered":"Titanic passenger\u2019s letter reveals new details about life on board before disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A letter containing “absolutely fascinating” details of life on the ill-fated Titanic cruise liner is expected to fetch around $47,000 at auction, CNN<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Written by a passenger named Henry Hodges, the letter is dated April 10, 1912 – the day RMS Titanic set sail – according to a listing at British auction house Henry Aldridge and Son.<\/p>\n

Hodges, a musical instrument salesman, was traveling for pleasure and was on his way to Boston to see some friends, traveling in second class. In the letter, he tells a friend, Hector, about what “a fine time” he has had on board.<\/p>\n

“Up to now, you do not see anything of the movement of the ship, but the weather is very fine,” he writes.<\/p>\n

“On the top deck there are about 200 boys (from 20 upwards) marching round & singing, others are playing dominoes & cards in the saloons, some reading, some writing, everything is quite different to what you would expect to see at sea,” adds Hodges, who died when the ship sank.<\/p>\n

When the Titanic departed Belfast, Northern Ireland on her maiden voyage, she was the largest passenger ship in service and considered to be “unsinkable.”<\/p>\n

Just four days later, on April 14, that voyage was transformed into an international tragedy when the ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. local time. She sank in less than three hours.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"