A letter written by one of the passengers on the doomed Titanic voyage that predicts the disaster is being put up for auction.

The letter, released to the public for the first time, describes 59-year-old Alfred Rowe's sense of foreboding before setting off on the transatlantic trip.

Ninety-five years after it was first written, the chilling letter reveals that Liverpool farmer and landowner Mr Rowe believed that the ocean liner was "too big" and wrote that it posed a "positive danger".

Writing to his wife Constance, Mr Rowe's letter was sent from Queenstown, Ireland, on April 11th 1912 and is on Titanic headed notepaper.

Mr Rowe's letter, in which he also details a near miss between the Titanic and another vessel near Southampton, has been put up for auction in Wiltshire by his family, along with Constance's diary.

A total of 1,522 people died when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in 1912. Mr Rowe was found frozen to death following the maritime disaster.