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Last Titanic survivor, a baby put in a lifeboat, dies at 97

By masterchef on  From photosoffood.co.uk
Millvina Dean taken ill with pneumonia in England, after Hollywood stars DiCaprio and Winslet came to her aid The last living survivor of the Titanic, ­Millvina Dean, has died at the age of 97 in Southampton after catching pneumonia. As a two-month-old baby, Dean was the youngest passenger on board the giant liner when it sank on its maiden voyage with the loss of more than 1,500 lives. Her parents had decided to leave England for America, where her father had family in Kansas and hoped...Read Full Story

Relatives re-trace Titanic route to mark 100 years

 From afp.com
Relatives of passengers on the Titanic will re-trace the ocean liner's fateful journey across the Atlantic on a memorial cruise to mark 100 years since it sank in 1912. Philip Littlejohn, whose grandfather Alexander James Littlejohn escaped on a lifeboat as the ship hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic, is among several descendants joining the cruise in two years' time, organisers said. The Balmoral ship will leave Southampton on the southern English coast on April 8, 2012, bound for New York...Read Full Story

Thoughts on the Passing of Millvina Dean

By radioflyer1980 on  From radioflyer1980.wordpress.com
An era passed into history Sunday morning when Millvina Dean died in a resting home in the U.K.  While she lived a long life – 97 years – she won’t be remembered as much for who she is, but rather what she represented.  Millvina Dean was the last survivor from the sinking of the Titanic. My mom is a natural storyteller.  When we ran out of Golden Books to read when I was a kid, she’d tell me about the things she remembered before I was born: the big blizzard in 1967, watching the news the...Read Full Story

Last Titanic survivor dies at age 97

By gblass on  From pocketburgers.com
Enlarge 2002 AFP/Getty Images photo Millvina Dean was just over 2 months old when the Titanic sank less than three horus after hitting an iceberg off Newfoundland April 14, 1912. LONDON (AP) — Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic, has died, her friend Gunter Babler said Sunday. She was 97 years old, and she died where she had lived — in Southampton, England, the city her family had tried to leave behind when it took the ship's ill-fated maiden voyage, bound for...Read Full Story

Obituaries in the news

 From ap.org
Millvina Dean LONDON (AP) — Millvina Dean, the last survivor of 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, has died at 97. She died in Southampton, England, the city her family had tried to leave behind when they took the ship's ill-fated maiden voyage, bound for America. She died in her sleep early Sunday, her friend Gunter Babler told The Associated Press. It was the 98th anniversary of the launch of the ship that was billed as "practically unsinkable." Dean was just over 2 months old when the...Read Full Story
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