encyclopedia titanica

A locket that went down with the Titanic and a survivors handwritten account of the 1912 disaster fetched tens of thousands of dollars at auction SaturdayAmerican passenger Helen Churchill Candees 36page description of the ships sinking which fetched US85000 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 itThe locket which sold for US100000 was found in the drowned Kents jacket pocket when his body was recovered soon after his death