Postcard from Titanic’s radio operator being sold at auction

A photocopy provided by RR Auction of a postcard dated May 31 1911 shows the Titanic, in Belfast, Northern Ireland (RR Auction via AP)

A postcard written by the Titanic’s senior radio operator just weeks before the ocean liner sank in the North Atlantic in 1912 has been put up for auction.

The card, with a glossy image of the ill-fated ship on the front, was written by Jack Phillips to his sister, Elsie Phillips, in March 1912 while awaiting the ship’s first sea trials, according to RR Auction in Boston.