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"It was terrible I don't think I will ever forget it I'd been in bed about 10 minutes when I heard a horrific crash which shook the whole vessel and the engine stopped dead I put on my dressing gown and a thick coat, I met my friend going on deck to find a reason for the crash."
A harrowing letter from a survivor of the Titanic disaster who described hearing the cries from the crowds of people as they went down with the ship has come to light.
The five page eye-witness account was penned by Marion Wright to her father in England two days after the tragedy in April 1912.
She wrote of how she watched helplessly from a lifeboat as the 'unsinkable' liner at first went down 'bit by bit' after it struck an iceberg that 'towered' right above it.
Pic: H.Aldridge&Sons/BNPS
"It was terrible I don't think I will ever forget it I'd been in bed about 10 minutes when I heard a horrific crash which shook the whole vessel and the engine stopped dead I put on my dressing gown and a thick coat, I met my friend going on deck to find a reason for the crash."
A harrowing letter from a survivor of the Titanic disaster who described hearing the cries from the crowds of people as they went down with the ship has come to light.
The five page eye-witness account was penned by Marion Wright to her father in England two days after the tragedy in April 1912.
She wrote of how she watched helplessly from a lifeboat as the 'unsinkable' liner at first went down 'bit by bit' after it struck an iceberg that 'towered' right above it.
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