Survivor Accounts

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	TITANIC SURVIVOR SINKS IN DEBT Millvina Dean is the last living survivor of the Titanic and, at 96 years old, she has been forced to auction off her valuable Titanic souvenirs to pay for her nursing home. Mark Phillips reports. ...
	MEETING MILLVINA DEAN - LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR A short video clip showing Millvina Dean, the last remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster, signing a photograph for me when I visited her on Friday 30th May 2008. ...
	TITANIC SALE FOR SURVIVOR MILLVINA DEAN
Southern Daily Echo	SELLING TITANIC ITEMS IS WRONG SAYS SURVIVOR Milvina Dean A HAMPSHIRE Titanic survivor has slammed black market dealers who are selling relics from the world-famous shipwreck.Britain's last survivor Milvina Dean, 94, of Woodlands, near Southampton, said the sale of items from the ship which sank killing more than 1,500 people in 1912, was "awfully wrong" and showed the greed of those involved....	30th October 2006
	IN MEMORY OF MILLVIA DEAN Millvina Dean, last remaining survivor of the Titanic, has passed away. I made this short video in her honor. ...
Southern Daily Echo	A TITANIC SURVIVOR THE last living survivor of the Titanic will be giving a rare talk about how the fateful event shaped her life....	7th January 2008
	A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO MILLVINA DEAN THE LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR ( R.I.P.) MILLVINA WILL BE IN OUR HEARTS FOREVER ...
Mirror.co.uk	£22K TALE OF TITANIC SURVIVOR A Titanic survivor's letter giving her account of the disaster has sold for £22,000 at auction.The writer tells how her party was last off the doomed liner and nearly froze to death in a lifeboat before being rescued....	1st October 2007
Daily Mirror	THE LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR As a 10-week-old baby she was the youngest person to escape the Titanic, lowered overboard in a sack.Now, aged 95, Millvina Dean has become the last survivor of the disaster that killed 1,500 people, including her father....	7th November 2007
BBC News	TITANIC SURVIVOR AUCTIONS RELICS The last remaining survivor of the Titanic plans to sell mementoes from the ship to pay her nursing home fees. Now 96, Millvina Dean was nine weeks old when the liner sank in the North Atlantic in 1912....	16th October 2008
	TITANIC SURVIVORS: WHAT THEY SAW (2) Interview with Titanic survivor Frank Prentice...
AFP	TITANIC SURVIVOR'S TALE OF DISASTER SOLD AT AUCTION An account of the sinking of the Titanic written by a survivor who was secretary to a controversial aristocrat has sold for 20000 pounds 23000 euros 32000 dollars auctioneers said on Sunday....	30th October 2010
	HART, AKS AND LORD Second Class Survivor Eva Hart with fellow survivor Frank Aks and writer Walter Lord in 1987....
Southern Daily Echo	TITANIC SURVIVOR GETS MAYORAL TRIBUTE SOUTHAMPTON mayor John Slade said it with flowers when he visited Titanic survivor Millvina Dean.Millvina, 95, broke her hip in a fall at her bungalow and has spent the past few months in a nursing home at Woodlands, near Ashurst....	8th May 2007
	TITANIC SURVIVORS: WHAT THEY SAW (1) Interview with Titanic survivor Frank Prentice...
wsj.com	WHEN THE GREAT SHIP WENT DOWN The sinking of the Titanic was like "a fancy dress ball in Dante's Hell," said survivor Helen Candee. In the early hours of April 15, 1912, the world's most luxurious ocean liner struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank into frigid water. Of 2,223 passengers and crew onboard, only 706 survived. Such cataclysm may seem an odd subject for children's books, but young readers are perhaps no more immune to fascination with the glamorous Titanic than anyone else. At any rate, the approaching centennial of the sinking has launched a fleet of narratives about the vessel that gripped the world's imagination even before it was launched. For "Titanic: Voices From the Disaster" (Scholastic, 285 pages, $17.99), Deborah Hopkinson has drawn from the vast archives of the event—eyewitness accounts, survivors' memoirs, telegraph transmissions—to relate what happened chiefly from the point of view of the people on the ship. The result, aimed at readers ages 11-16, is an affecting portrait of human ambition, folly and almost unbearable nobility in the face of death....	16th March 2012
BBC News	TITANIC SURVIVOR SELLS MEMENTOES The last remaining survivor of the Titanic has sold her mementoes for more than £30,000 at a Wiltshire auction. Millvina Dean sold a suitcase full of clothes, which had been given to her by the people of New York after she was rescued as a baby....	20th October 2008
BBC News	TITANIC SURVIVOR SELLS MEMENTOES The last remaining survivor of the Titanic has sold her mementoes for more than £30,000 at a Wiltshire auction. Millvina Dean sold a suitcase full of clothes, which had been given to her by the people of New York after she was rescued as a baby....	20th October 2008
United Press International	BUYER RETURNS MEMENTO TO TITANIC SURVIVOR DEVIZES, England, April 19 (UPI) -- An anonymous British buyer who bought a canvas bag belonging to a 97-year-old Titanic survivor has asked the auctioneer to return the memento to the seller....	22nd April 2009
The Associated Press	LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR'S ASHES SCATTERED IN ENGLAND The ashes of the last Titanic survivor have been scattered at the English port where the ship began its ill-fated maiden voyage in 1912....	24th October 2009
Mirror.co.uk	SECRETS OF THE TITANIC SURVIVOR LILLIAN ASPLUND REVEALED For 94 years, Titanic survivor Lillian Asplund refused to speak about the tragedy that had claimed the lives of her father and three brothers.But when she died aged 99, a shoebox was found containing letters, photos and mementos of her family's demise....	28th March 2008
Southern Daily Echo	WORLDWIDE SUPPORT FOR TITANIC SURVIVOR PEOPLE from all over the world have rallied behind the last remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster after it was revealed that she is selling her mementoes to pay her nursing home fees. Yesterday the Daily Echo told how Millvina Dean hopes to raise more than £3,000 from the auction of her treasured possessions, including a 100-year-old suitcase that was given to her family when they arrived in the US after being rescued....	20th October 2008
Southern Daily Echo	WORLDWIDE SUPPORT FOR TITANIC SURVIVOR PEOPLE from all over the world have rallied behind the last remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster after it was revealed that she is selling her mementoes to pay her nursing home fees. Yesterday the Daily Echo told how Millvina Dean hopes to raise more than £3,000 from the auction of her treasured possessions, including a 100-year-old suitcase that was given to her family when they arrived in the US after being rescued....	20th October 2008
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC SALE SURVIVOR SELLS MEMORABILIA Titanic survivor Millvina Dean is to put up more of her family memorabilia for auction to raise money to pay for her nursing home fees. In an interview with Ronan Corrigan from the Nomadic Charitable Trust, the 96-year-old woman revealed that she has another 17 items available to put on the market and will be auctioning some of them at Devizes in Southampton next month....	6th February 2009
New York Times	TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES Special to The New York Times --- ELIZABETH, N. J., July 8---Mrs. Lillian E. Stead, a survivor of the Titanic disaster twenty-one years ago, died this morning at her home here after a long illness. She was born in England. She was a m...	9th July 1933
Southern Daily Echo	TITANIC SURVIVOR'S GEST OF HONOUR When the last remaining survivor of the Titanic revealed she was selling her treasured possessions from the tragedy, Millvina Dean could have had little idea how quickly offers of help would pour in from across the globe.Yesterday she received a shock visit from I'm a Celebrity... star and stage producer David Gest, who arrived in Hampshire armed with a £3,000 cheque for the 96-year-old. ...	18th October 2008
The Times	ESTATE OF TITANIC SURVIVOR Mr. JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY, of Hill Street, Berkeley Square, W., a former president of the International Mercantile Marine Company and chairman of the White Star Line, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, who died on October 17, ...	4th December 1937
CNN	LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR SELLING MEMENTOS TO PAY BILLS LONDON, England (CNN) -- The last survivor of the Titanic, 97-year-old Millvina Dean, is auctioning off her remaining mementos of the doomed ship to pay nursing home bills.The auction, which is expected to raise up to $50,000 for her, is set to take place Saturday near her home in England....	22nd April 2009
coventrytelegraph.net	TITANIC SURVIVOR'S SON RECOUNTS STORY TO COVENTRY SCHOOLKIDS - COVENTRY TELEGRAPH THE son of Titanicâ€™s oldest survivor came to Coventry to share his motherâ€™s harrowing tale of survival on the maiden voyage. Edith Brown was just 15 when she sailed on the Titanic as a second-class passenger with her mum and dad. Before her death in 1997 at the age of 101, she told her 10 children about the tragic sinking of the legendary vessel, which struck an iceberg 400 miles off Newfoundland, Canada, on April 14 1912....	28th November 2011
	TITANIC POSTCARD FROM ONE SURVIVOR TO ANOTHER From Eugene Daly to Bertha Mulvihill...	20th August 1912
The Independent	LAST BRITISH 'TITANIC' SURVIVOR DISGUSTED BY SALVAGERS SELLING OFF SHIP'S TREASURES The last British survivor from the Titanic has condemned the people plundering the ship's wreckage where the bodies of hundreds, including her father, remain. Milveena Dean, 94, was shocked to learn that parts from the ship that is her father's grave are on sale on the black market as salvage companies and divers plunder the wreck....	30th October 2006
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC SURVIVOR BACKS NOMADIC APPEAL The youngest survivor of the Titanic disaster is backing the Belfast Telegraph's campaign to bring the Nomadic home to the city where she was built.The clock is ticking for the luxury ferry, which was built in Belfast by Harland and Wolff to carry passengers onto the Titanic and her sister liner Olympic.She faces the scrapyard if no buyers are found by the time she goes under the hammer on January 26....	19th January 2006
	EDITH RUSSELL (ROSENBAUM) INTERVIEW INTERVIEW WITH TITANIC SURVIVOR EDITH RUSSELL...
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	IN RACE TO TITANIC'S LIFEBOATS, WOULD I REALLY BE LAST TO LEAVE? He was chairman of the Titanic's shipping company and, on that terrifying night in 1912, got into a lifeboat with the women and children ... and survived. Some accounts say he ensured women and children were saved first and got in himself because there ......	8th April 2011
AFP	LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES IN ENGLAND: BBC LONDON (AFP) - 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....	31st May 2009
	TITANIC SURVIVOR -ALEXANDER JAMES LITTLEJOHN The Story of Titanic Survivor Alexander James Littlejohn, 1st Class Steward who survived rowing lifeboat 13. Told by his grandson Philip Littlejohn the first relative to dive to the Titanic wreck site....
marketwatch.com	PAPERS OF TITANIC SURVIVOR WHO WROTE ABOUT SINKING ON DISPLAY The descendant of a survivor of the Titanic will travel from England to America to share letters and photographs of her great-grandmother, who was a women's rights advocate and journalist and wrote an account of her rescue. As part of the centennial observance of the sinking of the Titanic, Rosemary Gillham of Hertfordshire, will visit Norwalk for an exhibit at Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum ( www.lockwoodmathewsmansion.com ), titled Epic Voyage: The Extraordinary Life of Titanic Survivor Helen Churchill Candee, and will bring her great-grandmother's papers. The exhibit runs from April 25 to October 14. "My great-grandmother has always been an inspiration for me," said Gillham. "She was 53 when she traveled on the Titanic, and that tragic evening was just one night in a long and very full life. She had already achieved a huge amount and went on to travel and write extensively." ...	27th March 2012
Foxnews.com	LAST US SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER DIES AT 99 BOSTON - Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has died, a funeral home said Sunday. She was 99. Asplund, who was just 5 years old, 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 died Saturday at her home in Shrewsbury, said Ronald E. Johnson, vice president of the Nordgren Memorial Chapel in Worcester, Mass....	7th May 2006
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	HOW THE TITANIC TRAGEDY HANDED A DEVASTATING LEGACY TO THE PEOPLE OF SOUTHAMPTON In the 100 years since the Titanic sank, one group of people on board have been reduced to the role of mere ballast. Nameless in almost all accounts of the sinking, they were nevertheless the most numerous, and suffered losses which made even third-class passengers seem privileged. They were the crew: the poor bloody, loyal crew. ...	5th March 2012
New York Times	TITANIC SURVIVOR LOST Stewardess of Ill-Fated Steamer Jumps from Leyland Liner --- BOSTON, Oct. 10---Mrs. Annie Robinson of Liverpool, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, jumped from the Leyland Line steamer Devonian last night while the liner was groping ...	11th October 1914
	GRAVE OF MORRO CASTLE SURVIVOR FLORIDE 'FLORA' LAROCHE Grave of survivor Floride 'Flora' LaRoche, Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Providence, Rhode Island....
thespec.com	CHURCH TO PLACE MARKER ON GRAVE OF TITANIC SURVIVOR FROM PORT DOVER - HAMILTON SPECTATOR Plans are in the works for a survivor of the Titanic who was born in Port Dover, Ont., to have a marker placed on his burial spot near London, England. William Edwy Ryerson was born in Port Dover in 1878 and served as a 2nd class steward on the luxury passenger liner. He has been lying in an unmarked grave for more than 60 years....	13th December 2011
dailymail.co.uk	'SAFE ON THE CARPATHIA': AUCTION OF TELEGRAM SENT BY TITANIC SURVIVOR FROM RESCUE SHIP FOUR DAYS AFTER DISASTER A scribbled note written by a survivor of the Titanic to tell his family he was alive and well has been put up for sale. The telegram was sent from the rescue ship Carpathia on April 18, 1912 - four days after the liner Titanic sank - to reassure the sender's family. Scrawled in pencil and yellowed with age, it reads: '(To) William Mansfield, Washington St., Morristown, New Jersey....	27th September 2011
KY3	TITANIC SURVIVOR'S TREASURED SUITCASE ARRIVES IN BRANSON In a moving ceremony members of the news media and many of their children were invited to watch the arrival of a rare Titanic Treasure in Branson Saturday.A small wicker suitcase that once belonged to the only living survivor of the Titanic disaster arrived at the Titanic Museum Attraction for a two month showing. The suitcase filled with donated clothing was given to Millvina Dean as she arrived in New York City after being rescued with her mother and brother in 1912....	10th November 2008
	MORRO CASTLE - SURVIVOR MADELINE DESVERNINE Survivor Madeline Desvernine, in a photo from the winter of 1933....	1933
Coventry Telegraph	GRANDSON OF TITANIC SURVIVOR TELLS HIS STORY IN COVENTRY HE grandson of a Titanic survivor was in Coventry yesterday to share his grandfather’s harrowing story.Phillip Littlejohn has joined the Titanic Heritage Trust to hold a series of talks in the city on what really happened on the night the infamous ship sank.Phillip’s grandfather, Alexander James Littlejohn, was a first class steward on the ship....	20th January 2012
Canada.com	LILLIAN GERTRUD ASPLUND, LAST U.S. SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 99 Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, has died, family and friends said Sunday. She was 99.Asplund, 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." ...	8th May 2006
L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse	WALTER BELFORD Walter Belford did not appear on the Titanic's crew lists. In fact, he never was a Titanic crewman, he just told Walter Lord he was, and became famous as a "fake" Titanic survivor. At the time when this picture was published in Switzerland, in Septem...	20th September 1956
New York Times	TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES Mrs. Edith Temple Gracie Adams, wife of Captain Dunbar Adams, and daughter of the late Colonel Archibald Gracie of Washington, died Tuesday of pneumonia, following influenza, at the Nursery and Child's Hospital. Mrs. Adams was a survivor of the Tita...	2nd January 1919
thisislancashire.co.uk	BLUE PLAQUE TRIBUTE TO CHORLEY'S HIGH-RANKING TITANIC SURVIVOR A BLUE PLAQUE has been unveiled on the gates of a high school to commemorate Lancashire man who was the highest-ranking survivor of the Titanic disaster. Charles Lightoller, the son of mill owners, grew up at Yarrow House, Chorley on the site later occupied Albany Science College . He was 38 at the time of the ship’s maiden voyage and was Second Officer. On the night of April 14, 1912, he commanded the last bridge watch before the ship’s collision with an iceberg. ...	14th September 2011

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