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Last Titanic survivor sells suitcase to pay bills |
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By: Agencies |
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2008-10-17 |
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Place: LONDON |
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Hard times: Millvina Dean in 1998. pic/ap | As a two-month-old, Millvina Dean was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat from the deck of the sinking RMS Titanic.
Now, Dean, the last living survivor of the disaster, is selling some mementos to help pay her nursing home fees.
Dean's artifacts, including a suitcase given to her family by the people of New York after their rescue, are expected to sell for about £3,000 (Rs 2.5 lakh) at Saturday's auction.
Dean (96) has lived in a nursing home in the southern English city of Southampton Titanic's home port since she broke her hip two years ago.
"I am not able to live in my home anymore," said Dean. "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."
Father died
Dean, her mother and two-year-old brother were among 706 people who survived. Her father was among more than 1,500 who died.
Dean did not know she had been aboard the Titanic until she was eight years old, when her mother, who was about to remarry, told her about her father's death. |
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