Laura Mabel Francatelli was on Titanic’s lifeboat No. 1, with only eleven other passengers, despite the small vessel's 40-person capacity.

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 RMS Carpathia came to the rescue of stranded Titanic passengers after the shipwreck and sinking, saving over 700 survivors from the icy water.

The item is believed to be one of only a handful of Titanic life jackets still in existence, the auction house said.

A rare object from the world’s most famous shipwreck sold for nearly double its estimated price at auction.

LONDON (AP) — 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 pounds ($906,000). The flotation device was ...

Surviving Titanic was only the beginning of a much longer struggle for many passengers and crew. After arriving in New York aboard Carpathia, survivors faced grief, trauma, public attention, and ...

The Titanic's sinking claimed over 1,500 lives. There were well-known people among the casualties.

A life jacket worn by a Titanic survivor has fetched a staggering £670,000 at auction. The vest, used by first-class passenger Laura Mabel Francatelli in lifeboat number one, bears the signatures of ...