RMS TITANIC CHIEF HENRY TINGLE WILDE LETTER DATED MARCH 31, 1912 REPRINT

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VERY NICE REPRINTED LETTER BY RMS TITANIC CHIEF OFFICER HENRY "HARRY" TINGLE WILDE.
WRITTEN ON BOARD OLYMPIC MARCH 31, 1912
EXCELLENT CONTENT INCLUDES HIS DISAPPOINTMNET AT BEING TRANSFERED TO TITANIC INSTEAD OF BEING GIVEN COMMAND OF THE CYMRIC.
This final letter Wilde, who was chief officer, wrote while on board the Olympic before he left for the Titanic.
Written on the March 31 1912, Wilde describes how he was to be given command of the Cymric but is disappointed not be taking it and is being transferred to the Titanic.
He says he is "awfully disappointed to find the arrangements for my taking command of the Cymric have altered. I am now going to join the Titanic until some other ship turns up for me".
In late March 1912, Wilde may have been expecting to remain as chief officer on the Olympic under her new skipper Captain Herbert James Haddock, but instead he was posted to Southampton to await orders.
Wilde only signed onto the Titanic on April 9, and reported for duty at 6am the following morning - the day of sailing.
In a subsequent letter to his sister, written onboard Titanic and posted at Queenstown, Wilde gave some indication that he had misgivings about the new ship.
"I still don't like this ship... I have a queer feeling about it," he wrote.
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