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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 670,00 pounds ($906,000). (Video courtesy of SKY, AP)

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Transcript
00:07It's interesting at multiple levels. We look here, Mabel Francatelli. This is the first
00:12class passenger that was wearing this life jacket. We can see her here.
00:34This is the only piece of a Titanic lifeboat that is in existence today. It comes complete
00:39with a Titanic lifeboat plaque and also the rope as well.
01:03They were on lifeboat number one. Lifeboat number one was a little controversial. It
01:08was known as the money boat and it was 12 people escaped on lifeboat one and that had
01:15a capacity for 40. It would have been a terrible trauma, you know, as that lifeboat is being
01:20rowed away from the sinking Titanic. The screams, the horror, the cold. It would have been a
01:28truly horrific experience for her.
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