A life jacket from a survivor of the Titanic tragedy sold at auction Saturday for $906,000, and was among a collection of other artifacts from the doomed ocean liner. Photo courtesy of Henry Aldridge & Sons
April 18 (UPI) -- The only life jacket worn by a person who survived the sinking of the Titanic ever put up for auction was sold for $906,000 on Saturday.
The jacket, which was worn by Laura Mabel Francatelli, a passenger in first class who boarded lifeboat No. 1, sold for nearly twice the roughly $473,000 it was expected to sell for.
The life jacket, sold during an auction that also included a handful of other Titanic artifacts, was sold by Henry Aldridge & Sons in Britain to the Titanic Museum and Attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., and Branson, Mo., auctioneer Andrew Aldredge told The BBC.
Aldridge said that the life jacket is the only one from a survivor that has been offered for auction since the ill-fated ship set sale 114 years ago.
