NEW YORK (AP) - In eight handwritten pages, a 95-year-old passenger recounted the Titanic's last hours, starting with the moment the ill-fated oceanliner hit an iceberg.

From a lifeboat, Laura Marie Cribb watched the luxurious vessel's lights go out and listened to the "most terrible shrieks and groans from the helpless and doomed passengers who were left on the wreck of the great ship."

Her account, written soon after the disaster, fetched $16,800 at a Christie's auction of Titanic memorabilia. The 18 lots - including letters, postcards, telegrams from survivors and photographs of passengers - sold Thursday for a total of $193,140.

The Titanic, the world's largest passenger steamship at the time, was on its maiden voyage when it struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912, and sank early on the following day. At least 1,496 people were killed.

Cribb, a third-class passenger from Newark, N.J., was rescued by the RMS Carpathia, but her father perished.

The deck log from cable ship SS MacKay-Bennett, the second ship on the scene after the Carpathia, was up for auction at a pre-sale estimate of $30,000 to $50,000. The log sold for $102,000.

"It's a journal that documents how many bodies were picked up and where in the Titanic debris field in the Atlantic Ocean," said Gregg Dietrich, Christie's maritime and oceanliner specialist.

The MacKay-Bennett was the first of four vessels that searched for bodies after the Titanic disaster. An embalmer from the Canadian province of Nova Scotia was stationed aboard the MacKay-Bennett to oversee the operation.

After seven days, 306 bodies were recovered.

Thursday's auction also included the ship's first-class passenger list, which bears such prominent New York names as Astor, Guggenheim and Straus. The list sold for $48,000, topping a pre-sale estimate of $15,000 to $20,000.

All prices include a 20-percent buyer's premium.

Artifacts from another famous shipwrecked luxury liner, the Andrea Doria, were also auctioned. The Italian vessel was heading across the Atlantic toward New York in 1956 when it collided with a Swedish passenger ship, the SS Stockholm, and sank, killing 46 people. The wreck lies on the bottom of the ocean floor south of Nantucket, Mass.

Christie's also sold items such as silverware and posters from the Normandie, the French Art Deco ocean liner that burned and capsized in New York Harbor during World War II.