article_snippet.sent: The letter, dated May 7, 1912, was sent from White Star Lines to Christopher Moody, the brother of 24-year-old officer James Moody, who died after the Titanic hit an iceberg on the Titanic maiden voyage.
article_snippet.sent: James Moody went straight into service as an officer, first working on the Titanic's sister ship the Oceanic, before transferring to her ill-fated relative in 1912, then aged 24.
article_snippet.sent: Serving as the vessel's sixth junior officer, James Moody set sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on April 14, 1912, along with 2,224 passengers and crew.
article_snippet.sent: James Moody was among the 1,500 passengers and crew to die aboard the Titanic when the Titanic sank in the north Atlantic on April 14 1912, two days into James Moody maiden voyage.
article_snippet.sent: himself had been serving as the Titanic's sixth officer, and was the only junior officer to perish after staying behind to help evacuate the passengers after the other officers left.
article_snippet.sent: James was originally stationed on the Oceanic, the Titanic's sister ship, but transferred just months before the disaster in 1912.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Moody (front left), 24, was the Titanic's sixth officer, and the only junior officer to die on board while helping passengers into the lifeboats, long after his colleagues had abandoned ship .
highlights_snippet.sent: James Moody, 24, officer on the Titanic, died helping passengers escape .
  