Almost a million dollars for the vest. Record auction of Titanic “souvenirs”.

The American Titanic Museum and Attractions purchased at auction in Great Britain for PLN 906,000. a life jacket of a passenger who survived the transatlantic shipwreck. The amount obtained turned out to be twice as high as the original experts' estimates.

According to the auction house Henry Aldridge & Sons, quoted by the UPI agency, which cites the BBC, this is the only vest used by a survivor that has ever hit the open market and been sold. The transaction finalized on Saturday confirms that interest in souvenirs from the tragic cruise remains extremely high even more than a hundred years after the disaster.

The vest belonged to Laura Mabel Francatelli, a first-class passenger who evacuated in Lifeboat No. 1. The woman found herself in a boat that left the sinking ship with only 12 people, even though it had 40 seats. This fact remains one of the most controversial aspects of the rescue operation to this day.

The RMS Titanic was sailing from Southampton to New York. It sank on the night of April 14-15, 1912, in the North Atlantic, approximately 600 kilometers southeast of the coast of Newfoundland, after colliding with an iceberg.

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