Thursday, June 26, 2008

Titanic life-jacket fetches 68,000 dollars in US auction

New York - A life-jacket from the doomed transatlantic cruise ship "Titanic," which struck an iceberg in 1912 and sank, fetched 68,500 dollars at auction at Christie's in New York late Wednesday.It is one of only six life-jackets still known to exist from the Titanic and had been kept in a trunk by a Canadian family, AFP reported.Some 1,500 passengers and crew aboard the Titanic died when the

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