A gold pocket watch owned by an unsung hero of the Titanic disaster could fetch up to £100,000 at auction, those selling it say. The item, which goes under the hammer in Penshurst later this month, ...

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 ...

A life jacket worn by Titanic survivor Laura Mabel Francatelli sold for roughly $906,000 at auction, far exceeding its pre-sale estimate of $475,000.

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 670,00 pounds ($906,000). Subscribe to read this story ...

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

The watch was handed to a crew member by a passenger during the infamous sinking of the British ocean liner in 1912.

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 ...

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A rare life jacket worn by a Titanic survivor is set to be auctioned more than a century after the disaster. The flotation device, used by first-class passenger Laura Mabel Francatelli during the ship ...

BOARD THE SHIP. THIS IS THE SIDE OF THE SHIP. THIS IS THE DECK DOOR. SO THIS IS ALL RECREATED FROM THE ORIGINAL BUILDER’S PLANS. INSIDE THE POWER PLANT AT PIER FIVE, AN IMPRESSIVE EXHIBIT THAT PUTS ...