Titanic survivor’s life jacket — from the lifeboat that coldly ignored drowning passengers — sells for $700k

The only lifejacket of a Titanic survivor ever auctioned — worn by one of the passengers in lucky Lifeboat No. 1 — was sold today for $717,772 in England.

The ship was four days into its maiden voyage when it struck an iceberg just before midnight on April 14, 1912, sealing its fate as the world’s most infamous shipwreck.

The poignant remaining pieces of that story were sold to highest bidder during an April 18 sale at Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd., a Wiltshire-based auction house.

At the center of it all was a life jacket worn by first-class passenger Laura Mabel Francatelli, a 22-year-old who survived the tragedy by boarding Lifeboat No. 1, known as the “money boat.”

It became shadowed by controversy, accused of failing to return for