ORIGINAL LETTER TO CAPT EDWARD SMITH OF TITANIC ON WHITE STAR LINE HEADED PAPER

ORIGINAL LETTER TO CAPT EDWARD SMITH OF TITANIC ON WHITE STAR LINE HEADED PAPER (image 1/3)
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ORIGINAL LETTER TO CAPT EDWARD SMITH OF TITANIC ON WHITE STAR LINE NOTE PAPER Presented here a most interesting piece of White Star Line memorabilia. This is an original letter from a passenger on board RMS Adriatic to its commanding officer, Captain Edward Smith. Captain Smith went on to find fame as the commander of RMS Titanic on its ill fated 1912 maiden voyage on the same trans-Atlantic route. The letter is on White Star Line headed note paper 'On board R.M.S. Adriatic' and is dated 25th July 1907. The writer a John Canterbury presents a book to Captain Smith, he apologises for writing in pencil as "my 'fountain' has run dry" and says "otherwise I should have inscribed the regard I have for you". RMS Adriatic was the fourth of a quartet of ships measuring over 20,000 tons dubbed The Big Four . Adriatic was the only one of the four never to be the world's largest ship, however she was the fastest and was the first ocean liner to have an indoor swimming pool and a Turkish bath. Adriatic was built like Titanic by Harland and Woolf and launched on the 20th September 1906. She set off on her maiden voyage from Liverpool on 8th May 1907 under the command of Captain Smith and after this trip was switched to the Southampton run. She was the ship that inaugurated White Star's Southampton service and ran this route until 1911 when Olympic read more
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