According to witnesses who survived the 1912 sinking, 37-year-old Dr Simpson stood with fellow offic

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A mystery benefactor diamond princess cruise ship has stepped in to ensure a valuable letter diamond princess cruise ship written by an officer days before he died on the Titanic will return to his home town. Dr John Simpson penned to his mother onboard the doomed liner would be bought diamond princess cruise ship by a private collector when it was put up for auction in New York with a $34,000 reserve price.
But after hearing about a campaign by relatives of the ship s assistant surgeon to bring the letter back to his native Belfast a mystery donor stepped in and bought it for the city just weeks before the 100th anniversary of the tragedy.
According to witnesses who survived the 1912 sinking, 37-year-old Dr Simpson stood with fellow officers on the deck of the stricken vessel as it went down. His great-nephew Dr John Martin said he was happy the letter was coming back to where it belonged. I ve never actually seen the original letter itself as it was last in Belfast in the 1940s before Dr Simpson s son moved away.
It was dispatched to his mother Elizabeth who was living in Belfast s Dublin Road. In it, the married father-of-one, who was then based in Liverpool, said he was tired but settling into his cabin well. He had worked diamond princess cruise ship on the Titanic s White Star Line sister ship the Olympic for a year previously and observed to his mother that the accommodation on board his new vessel was larger.
diamond princess cruise ship Dr Simpson also complained he had found one of his trunks unlocked and $5 or $6 had been stolen from his pocket book. The surgeon, who treated second and third-class passengers, signed off: With fondest diamond princess cruise ship love, John.