For sale: Telegram from Titanic survivor sent to her sister from rescue ship 

Message from passenger Lucy Ridsdale to her sister in Milwaukee is among a collection of Titanic relics for auction in California 
 A telegram requesting a list of Titanic survivors on the Olympic. 

A telegram requesting a list of Titanic survivors on the Olympic. 

A telegram from a Titanic survivor sent from the rescue ship Carpathia to her sister in Milwaukee will be auctioned this month.

The message from Lucy Ridsdale, who had been a second-class passenger aboard the ill-fated ocean liner, simply reads: "Safe".

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