Fur coat worn on the Titanic sold for £150k
A FUR coat worn by a stewardess when she was rescued from the Titanic sold at auction for £150,000 yesterday – nearly double its £80,000 estimate.
Mabel Bennett was in her night-dress when the liner hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912, and she put on the coat as she boarded a lifeboat. More than 1,500 passengers and crew lost their lives in the tragedy.
Mrs Bennett, who was 33 at the time, died aged 96 in 1974. She was the longest-living female member of the crew.
She passed the coat on to her great-niece in the 1960s. The item had been on display in America before being auctioned in Wiltshire.