2026年4月18日 / 美国东部时间下午4:25 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社报道
一件泰坦尼克号号客轮幸存者逃生时所穿的救生艇救生衣于周六在拍卖会上以90.6万美元的价格售出。
这件漂浮装置的所有者是这艘沉没远洋客轮的一等舱乘客劳拉·梅布尔·弗朗卡泰利，救生衣上有她和同艇其他幸存者的签名。
一件属于幸存者的泰坦尼克号救生圈以超90万美元价格拍出。桑·坦/美联社
这件拍品是英国英格兰西部迪韦齐斯市的亨利·奥尔德里奇父子拍卖行举办的泰坦尼克号纪念物品拍卖会的重头戏，最终以远超25万至35万英镑预估价的价格被一位身份不明的电话竞标者购得。
这件米黄色救生衣由帆布制成，内部填充软木塞，曾在美国和欧洲的多家博物馆展出。
拍卖行负责人安德鲁·奥尔德里奇告诉《封面媒体》：“目前现存的幸存者穿过的救生艇救生衣寥寥无几，”他补充道，其中大多数都被博物馆收藏，不太可能进入拍卖市场。
同场拍卖会上，一艘泰坦尼克号救生艇上的座垫以52.7万美元的价格售出，买家是田纳西州鸽子谷和密苏里州布兰森两家泰坦尼克号博物馆的所有者。
以上价格均包含拍卖行收取的买家佣金。
拍卖行负责人安德鲁·奥尔德里奇表示：“这些破纪录的成交价彰显了大众对泰坦尼克号故事的持续关注，也体现了人们对这些纪念物品所承载的乘客与船员故事的尊重。”
泰坦尼克号曾被标榜为世界上最奢华的远洋客轮，并称其“几乎不会沉没”。它在从英国前往纽约的首航途中，在纽芬兰附近海域撞上冰山，并于1912年4月15日在数小时内沉没。当时船上2200名乘客和船员中，约1500人遇难。
泰坦尼克号至今仍是全球热议的话题，部分原因在于船上乘客阶层跨度极大，从贫民到富豪应有尽有。
弗朗卡泰利当时与雇主、时装设计师露西·达夫·戈登及其丈夫科斯莫·达夫·戈登一同出行。三人全部搭乘1号救生艇获救，该救生艇额定载客量为40人，但当时仅搭载了12人。该艇未捞起冰冷海水中的幸存者，这一行为后来引发了争议。
幸存者最终被卡帕西亚号客轮救起。
2025年，一名收藏家以超200万美元的创纪录价格拍下了一块与泰坦尼克号相关的金怀表。这块18K金怀表是伊西多尔·斯特劳斯的妻子艾达·斯特劳斯为他43岁生日赠送的礼物。斯特劳斯是美国商人、梅西百货公司所有者，他与妻子均为泰坦尼克号的一等舱乘客。
这对夫妇在沉船时展现出的无私行为广为人知。据英国政府国家档案馆资料，冰山撞击后，有人为斯特劳斯夫妇提供了两个救生艇座位，但他们将位置让给了更年轻的人。
Life jacket worn by a passenger on Titanic who survived auctioned off for over $900,000
April 18, 2026 / 4:25 PM EDT / CBS/AP
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 $906,000.
The flotation device was worn by Laura Mabel Francatelli, a first-class passenger on the doomed ocean liner, and is signed by her and other survivors from the same lifeboat.
A Titanic life preserver, belonging to a survivor, was auctioned off for more than $900,000. SANG TAN / AP
It was the star among items in a sale of Titanic memorabilia by Henry Aldridge & Son auctioneers in Devizes, western England, and sold to an unidentified telephone bidder for well over the presale estimate of between 250,000 and 350,000 pounds.
The cream-colored life jacket, made of canvas with cork-filled sections, has been displayed at museums in both the United States and Europe.
“There are only a handful of life jackets worn by survivors which still exist today,” auctioneer Andrew Aldridge told Cover Media, adding that most are held in museums and are unlikely to be sold.
A seat cushion from one of the Titanic lifeboats sold at the same auction for $527,000 to the owners of two Titanic museums in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and Branson, Missouri.
The prices include an auction-house fee known as the buyer’s premium.
“These record-breaking prices illustrate the continuing interest in the Titanic story, and the respect for the passengers and crew whose stories are immortalized by these items of memorabilia,” auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said.
Billed as the world’s most luxurious ocean liner and described as “practically unsinkable,” the Titanic hit an iceberg off Newfoundland during its maiden voyage from England to New York. It sank within hours on April 15, 1912. Some 1,500 of the 2,200 passengers and crew died.
The Titanic is still a subject of worldwide fascination, in part because of the range of passengers aboard the ship, from paupers to plutocrats.
Francatelli was traveling with her employer, fashion designer Lucy Duff Gordon, and Lucy’s husband Cosmo Duff Gordon. All three survived in the ship’s lifeboat No. 1, which was launched carrying 12 people despite having a capacity for 40. Its failure to pick up survivors from the frigid water became a source of controversy.
The survivors were eventually picked up by the RMS Carpathia.
In 2025, a collector paid a record price of over $2 million for a gold pocket watch linked to the Titanic. The 18-carat gold watch was gifted to its original owner, Isidor Straus, by his wife, Ida Straus, for his 43rd birthday. Straus, an American businessman and owner of Macy’s, and his wife were first-class passengers on the Titanic.
The couple was known for their final act of selflessness aboard the sinking ship. The Strauses were offered two seats on a lifeboat once the ship had struck an iceberg, according to the U.K. government’s National Archives, but they gave up their spots for younger people.