Titanic Life Jacket Sells for $900K

0:00It's April 18th. This is Entertainment and Celebrity News today, powered by AI, your front row to the latest buzz. I'm Cory with the story. A titanic life jacket, worn by first-class passenger, Laura Mabel Frankatelli, just sold at auction for 670,000 pounds. That's about $9.00 in $6,000. She escaped on a lifeboat from the sinking ship back in 1912, and the jacket even has signatures from her and other survivors scribbled on. It. This was the top item at Henry Aldridge and Sun Sale in Devise's England, blowing past the estimate of 250,000 to 300, 50,000 pounds. A seat cushion from one of the lifeboats, went for 390,000 pounds, about $527,000, snapped up. By owners of titanic museums in Tennessee and Missouri, the prices include the buyer's premium, and folks are still hooked on a titanic tale from its practically unsinkable hype

1:00to the tragedy that, killed 1,500 out of 2,200 aboard after hitting an iceberg on its maiden run from England to New York on April 15th, 1912. Frankatelli traveled with her boss, fashion designer Lucy Duff Gordon, and her husband Cosmo, they all made it on lifeboat number one, which only. Despite 12 people despite room for 40, sparking big controversy for not picking up more from the freezing water. Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge says these sky-high prices show the endless respect for those passengers and crew stories. This lifejacket now ranks high among titanic relics, though a captain's pocket watch from the rescue ship holds the all-time record at 1.5, 6 million pounds from earlier this year. The ship's pull on our imagination ain't fading anytime soon.