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NEW YORK — In eight handwritten pages, a 16-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 April 14, 1912, disaster, fetched $16,800 at a Christie's auction of Titanic memorabilia on June 28. The 18 lots - including letters, postcards, telegrams from survivors and photographs of passengers — sold for a total of $193,140.