LONDON — Millvina Dean, who as a baby was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat in the frigid North Atlantic, died Sunday, having been the last survivor of 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.
She was 97 years old.
Dean was just over 2 months old when the Titanic hit an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912.
Dean was one of 706 people — mostly women and children — who survived. Her father was among the 1,517 who died.
Dean’s family were steerage passengers setting out from the English port of Southampton for a new life in the U.S. Her father had sold his pub and hoped to open a tobacconists’ shop in Kansas City, Mo.
Dean had no memories of the sinking and said she preferred it that way.
"I wouldn’t want to remember, really,” she told The Associated Press in an interview in 1997.
She opposed attempts to raise the wreck 13,000 feet from the sea bed.
"I don’t want them to raise it, I think the other survivors would say exactly the same,” she has said.
"That would be horrible,” Dean added.
by the associated press
She was 97 years old.
Dean was just over 2 months old when the Titanic hit an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912.
Dean was one of 706 people — mostly women and children — who survived. Her father was among the 1,517 who died.
Dean’s family were steerage passengers setting out from the English port of Southampton for a new life in the U.S. Her father had sold his pub and hoped to open a tobacconists’ shop in Kansas City, Mo.
Dean had no memories of the sinking and said she preferred it that way.
"I wouldn’t want to remember, really,” she told The Associated Press in an interview in 1997.
She opposed attempts to raise the wreck 13,000 feet from the sea bed.
"I don’t want them to raise it, I think the other survivors would say exactly the same,” she has said.
"That would be horrible,” Dean added.
by the associated press
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