Last Titanic Survivor

The last remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster is auctioning mementoes from the doomed liner to pay for her nursing home fees, a newspaper said Thursday.

Millvina Dean was only two months old when the Titanic struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank in 1912, but now at the age of 96 she is struggling to make ends meet and hopes to make 3,000 pounds from the sale.

Personal items going under the hammer include a 100-year-old suitcase filled with clothes given to her family by the people of New York after they arrived there following the catastrophe.

Dean has lived in a nursing home for the last two years.

"I was hoping to be here for two weeks after breaking my hip but I developed an infection and have been here for two years. I am not able to live in my home any more," she told the Southern Daily Echo newspaper.

"I am selling it all now because I have to pay these nursing home fees and am selling anything that I think might fetch some money," she added. "The fees are quite expensive. The more money I can get from the auction the better."

Some 1,500 passengers and crew aboard the Titanic died when the White Star Line luxury ship sank in the frigid northern Atlantic ocean on its way from Southampton to New York.

Dean's family were emigrating to Kansas aboard the doomed liner. She was the youngest survivor, rescued along with her baby brother and mother Eva, although her father died.

In all, some 700 people survived the sinking, one of the worst maritime disasters ever. Their numbers have dwindled over the decades, leaving only Dean left after fellow Briton Barbara Joyce Dainton died last year.

The auction of her belongings will be held on Saturday at Henry Aldridge and Son auctioneers in the town of Devizes.

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[Titanic19127]

I had a lovely dinner with Mrs. Dean in April 14 of 2007, the same date Titanic sank,on the last White star line ship the Nomadic wich brought passenger aboard Titanic in Chergbourg France on April 12 1912,She was a very nice lady.

[PappyStu]

@Titanic19127 Very Fortunate for you...

[ambulansekim]

She was the last survivor if the Titanic, and it's shameful and disrespectful that she had to sell her belongings, and the things her parents, she and her brother had before, on and after the dissaster! I think that she NEVER should have to sell all ov it just to pay £300 for her nursinghome! She should have been allowed to live there for free, or at least much cheaper when she was who she was! The LAST survivor should be respected that much!

May she rest in peace and may God bless her soul

[PappyStu]

@ambulansekim Amen Brother

[Godzie1]

I hate money!

[slavostein]

This is so shameful! This peroson ought to be respected just like President Of the United States of AMERICA! God Bless Her!

[Titanic19127]

Why RIP?!?!

[PappyStu]

@richbandicoot Roger that... may she RIP...

[richbandicoot]

@PappyStu 9 weeks old

[dowsonf]

@kewlgrl20 she was only two months she was with her brother he was 2 years old and her fther and mother she survived and her brother and he mother her mome died in 1975 and her broter in 1995

[AnimeFreakie]

shut up stop teasing her it was a terrifing event.