A rare object from the world’s most famous shipwreck sold for nearly double its estimated price at auction.
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 ...
Laura Mabel Francatelli was on Titanic’s lifeboat No. 1, with only eleven other passengers, despite the small vessel's 40-person capacity.
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 ...
The RMS Carpathia came to the rescue of stranded Titanic passengers after the shipwreck and sinking, saving over 700 survivors from the icy water.
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 ...
A life jacket worn by a survivor of the Titanic is going on sale Saturday, a first-of-its kind auction over 114 years after the ocean liner sank in the most notorious maritime disaster in history. The ...