Titanic letter shows victim wanted it to sink before it set sail
A Titanic passenger wrote he wished it would sink two days before it set sail, a newly-discovered letter shows.
The letter by 17-year-old Edugardo Samuel Andrew has been discovered by the company that owns the salvage rights to the ship.
He was apparently angry at having to change his travel plans so he wouldn't see the friend he wrote to.
The letter reads: "You figure, Josey, I had to leave on the 17th ... aboard the Oceanic, but due to the coal strike that steamer cannot depart, so I have to go one week earlier on board the Titanic.
"It really seems unbelievable that I have to leave a few days before your arrival, but there's no help for it, I've got to go.
"You figure, Josey, I am boarding the greatest steamship in the world, but I don't really feel proud of it at all, right now I wish the Titanic were lying at the bottom of the ocean."
Arnie Geller, President of RMS Titanic Inc of Atlanta, told Ananova: "We were astonished he wrote this prophetic letter two days before the Titanic set sail."
Andrew, whose family lived in Argentina, was travelling to New York for his brother's wedding. He was at school in Bournemouth.
