The item is believed to be one of only a handful of Titanic life jackets still in existence, the auction house said.
Beginning next week, visitors will be able to step on the famous ship through a digitally recreated experience.
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 ...
The last time a sale was proposed, the idea drew objections from the U.S. and French governments, and from UNESCO and other ...
This Wednesday will mark the 114th anniversary of a legendary maritime tragedy. At 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912, the British ocean liner RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic at a speed ...
It is the only life jacket from the Titanic to be sold at auction in 114 years.
CALM BEFORE THE STORM: A VR tour at OMSI’s TITANIC: The Artifact Exhibition shows the RMS Titanic stopped in Cherbourg, France. (Courtesy of OMSI) The Celine Dion song plays zero times. Leonardo ...