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Trinket sells for titanic sum

London: A locket that went down with the Titanic and a survivor's handwritten account of the 1912 disaster have fetched tens of thousands of dollars at auction.

American passenger Helen Churchill Candee's 36-page description of the ship's sinking, which fetched $85,000 in the sale, describes how she gave her locket to Edward Kent, a friend on board the ship, for safekeeping after the Titanic hit the iceberg that destroyed it.

The locket, which sold for $100,000, was found in the drowned Kent's jacket pocket when his body was recovered soon after his death. Candee survived the disaster in a lifeboat.

AP

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