Last Titanic survivor dies

01 Jun, 2009

Millvina Dean, the last remaining survivor of the Titanic, died Sunday at a care home in England where the lived, the BBC reported, citing a unnamed friend. She was 97. Dean was a two-month-old baby and her family were emigrating to Kansas in the United States when the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on its maiden voyage in 1912.
She was placed in a sack and carried to safety. Her mother and brother also survived, but her father was among the 1,500 passengers and crew who died.

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