The item is believed to be one of only a handful of Titanic life jackets still in existence, the auction house said.
The RMS Carpathia came to the rescue of stranded Titanic passengers after the shipwreck and sinking, saving over 700 survivors from the icy water.
The artifact belonged to first-class passenger Laura Mabel Francatelli, a secretary heading to Chicago with her employer. It's the only life vest connected to a survivor of the 1912 shipwreck to ever ...
The lifejacket, a lifeboat seat cushion and a gold watch up going under the hammer at Henry Aldridge & Sons in the UK on April 18 The only lifejacket of a Titanic survivor ever auctioned — worn by one ...
Laura Mabel Francatelli was on Titanic’s lifeboat No. 1, with only eleven other passengers, despite the small vessel's 40-person capacity.
The watch was handed to a crew member by a passenger during the infamous sinking of the British ocean liner in 1912.
A gold watch rumored to have been used as a bribe to secure a family’s place on a Titanic lifeboat is set to fetch as much as ...
LONDON -- A life jacket worn by a passenger on RMS Titanic as she escaped the sinking steamship on a lifeboat sold at auction on Saturday for 670,000 GBP ($906,000). The flotation device was worn by ...