Truth Of Mysterious Titanic Letter May Never Be Known, Researchers Say
On 5/13/21 at 8:31 AM EDT Titanic have said they may never know if it is genuinely from aboard the doomed ship.
RMS Titanic s billing by its operator White Star Line as unsinkable is a byword for tempting fate, but a letter signed by French girl Mathilde Lefebvre and dated April 13, 1912, gave no inkling of what was to befall the liner on its maiden voyage. I am throwing this bottle into the sea in the middle of the Atlantic. We are due to arrive in New York in a few days. If anyone finds it, tell the Lefebvre family in Liévin, says the letter written in French and found in 2017 sealed in a bottle on a beach in Hopewell Rocks, Bay of Fundy, in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
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Message in a bottle ‘thrown from deck of the Titanic’ by girl, 12, and found 105 years later leaves experts baffled
Updated: May 12 2021, 6:12 ET
A MESSAGE in a bottle seemingly thrown from the deck of the Titanic hours before it sank to the bottom of the ocean has left experts baffled.
The intriguing note is dated April 13, 1912, and bears the name of 12-year-old Mathilde Lefebvre, who was a third-class passenger on the doomed vessel.
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It is thought to have been thrown from the deck of the doomed TitanicCredit: Credit: Pen News
It reads: I am throwing this bottle into the sea in the middle of the Atlantic. We are due to arrive in New York in a few days.
Was this message in a bottle thrown from the Titanic hours before it sank? Note from French passenger washes up in Canada 105 years after tragedy
A message in a bottle purports to have been thrown from the deck of the Titanic on April 13, 1912
The note appears to have been written by a French schoolgirl who was travelling to New York to visit family
She drowned alongside 1,500 others after liner hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton
The bottle washed up on a beach in Canada 105 years, with scientists now probing its authenticity
Alexander Oskar Holverson grew up in Douglas County and still has relatives locally. Written By: Karen Tolkkinen | ×
The Holverson brothers, taken in April 1911, one year before the Titanic sank, from left: Sidney, Henry, Alexander and Walter. (Contributed)
It’s been 109 years since the RMS Titanic sank in the icy Atlantic, and the memory of an Alexandria man who perished that day lives on.
Alexander Oskar Holverson, who grew up in Urness Township and Alexandria in Douglas County, was a businessman living in New York City at the time. He and his wife, Mary, a Pennsylvania native, boarded the supposedly unsinkable luxury liner as first-class passengers, according to Encyclopedia Titanica, a nonprofit online site devoted to the ship.
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