encyclopedia titanica

Lillian Gertrud Asplund the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic has died family and friends said Sunday She was 99Asplund who was five years old that night in 1912 lost her father and three brothers including a fraternal twin when the practically unsinkable ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg She even said she saw the ship slip into the water said Philip Maloof her lawyer and close friend She was the last one left in the world to actually see the disaster