Sunday, May 31, 2009
LONDON (AFP) - - Millvina Dean, the last remaining survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, died in a care home in England, media reports said. She was 97.
Elizabeth Gladys Dean, known to friends as Millvina, was only nine weeks old when the liner hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on the night of April 14, 1912, and sank killing 1,500 people.
She survived after being bundled up in a sack and carried to safety. Her mother Georgette Eva and brother Bertram also made it, but her father, Bertram Frank, was among those who died.
Dean died in a private nursing home near Ashurst in the southern English county of Hampshire, according to the BBC and Britain's domestic Press Association news agency. Staff there refused to comment late Sunday.
Dean's family had boarded the Titanic at Southampton, heading for a new life in Kansas where her father hoped to open a tobacconist shop.
Born on February 12, 1912, Dean was the youngest passenger on board. At the time, RMS Titanic was the most luxurious, most technically advanced and largest passenger liner in the world.
She was dubbed "unsinkable", but it took just two hours and 40 minutes for her to disappear into the icy waters of the Atlantic after striking an iceberg at 11:40 pm on April 14.
Dean was taken back to Southampton with her family after the disaster and did not find out that she had been on board until she was eight years old and her mother was planning to remarry.
According to enthusiasts' website Encyclopedia Titanica (ET), Dean worked for the government as a cartographer during World War II and then for an engineering company.
She told reporters that it was not until the wreckage of the liner was found in 1985 that she suddenly became a celebrity, taking part in documentaries and giving media interviews.
Dean was invited to complete her family's ill-fated journey to the United States in 1997 aboard the QE2, and accepted, although she turned down an offer to attend the premier of the movie "Titanic" because it would be too upsetting.
She moved into a private nursing home in Hampshire after breaking her hip three years ago, and after struggling to pay the bills was forced to sell off some of her memorabilia.
At auction in October 2008 she raised 31,150 pounds (40,000 euros, 53,900 dollars), selling off rare prints of the liner signed by the artists as well as compensation letters sent to her mother by the Titanic Relief Fund.
Dean was also forced to sell a 100-year-old suitcase filled with clothes donated to her family by the people of New York when they arrived after being rescued.
In the wake of the auction, friends including members of the British Titanic Society and the Belfast Titanic Society -- the liner was built in Belfast in Northern Ireland-- set up a campaign to secure her future.
Among the donors to the Millvina Fund were Hollywood actors Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, who starred in the 1997 "Titanic" film. The pair and the film's director, James Cameron, reportedly donated 30,000 US dollars in total.
The last remaining US survivor, Lillian Asplund, died in her home in May 2006 at the age of 99. She was just five years old when the Titanic went down.
- 10:33 PM;
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Hi all readers...
Today is my happy,fun and funny day as i keep laughing and laughing non-stop ha ha ha
Today i went out with my school to somewhere forget where and go so many place and learn so many things about Singapore's history.
Forget what happen~~ me,yf,vinc,sakinah, isaac,husaini and syahzwan we all went to pool but forget at wher le ha ha STM..
WOW it was so fun le although it was my first time playing,but lucky gt yf there to teach me how to play.. we had so much fun ha ha and we keep laughing and laughing LOL!!! k la i don't know what to write le YAWNN so tired le want to sleepp le..
Bye all and btw thxs my friends who went to the pool i had a fun time there ^^ hope can go again.
Godd night
Labels: Never give up easily Fight for it
- 5:25 AM;
Monday, May 25, 2009
I was made the wrong way
won't you do me the right way
where you gonna be tonight
'cause I won't stay too long
maybe you're the light for me
when you talk to me it strikes me
won't somebody help me
'cause I don't feel too strong
Was it something that I said
was it something that I did
or the combination of both that did me wrong
You know I'm hoping you'll sing along
Though it's not your favorite song
don't wanna be there when there's nothing left to say
you know that some of us spin again
when you do, you need a friend
don't wanna be there when there's nothing left for me
and I hate the thought of finally being erased
baby that's the best of me
Everything's behind you
but the hope still stands beside you
living in every moment
have I wasted all your time
Was there something that I said
was there something that I did
or the combination I broke that did me have
You know I'm hoping you'll sing along
though it's not your favorite song
don't wanna be there when there's nothing left to say
you know that some of us spin again
when you do, you need a friend
don't wanna be there when there's nothing left for me
and I hate the thought of finally being erased
baby that's the best of me
baby that's the best of me
You know I'm hoping you'll sing along
though it's not your favorite song
don't wanna be there when there's nothing left to say
you know that some of us spin again
when you do, you need a friend
don't wanna be there when there's nothing left for me
and I hate the thought of finally being erased
baby that's the best of me
Labels: I love this song so much
- 5:16 AM;
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Hi...
wow today went to cck swimming pool with yf and ps it was so fun we keep laughing and laughing so funny something happen ha ha i don't wish to say it LOL!!!
Now i gt sun burn ahhhh my back is super hot can't stand it!!!
End of post~~
if u don't understand what i talking it's ok because i also don't understand what i talking about ^^
- 1:39 AM;
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Hi readers.
At home is super bored gt nth to do... com no games to play.. tv gt no show to watch... i going mad aahhhh... and my worst day is coming.. taking back my result waaa this MYE sure fail very badly de lo die ah..
k la end of post le going to sleep le
Bye~~
- 2:02 AM;
Friday, May 22, 2009
Hi all readers~~ time for posting...
i will post on yesterday :)
people who went were me,serene,xin ning,zr,vincent png,sakinah,sd,yf,ting hao,kj,roy,syahzwan(small)Sebastian and many more
we went to jurong point(jp) to watch NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2.
many things happen i don't want to write it out.
Then when we reach there we brought tickets(one ticket cost $8.50)so expensive le going to broke =) then after buying the tickets we went to take our lunch ha ha after my lunch i still felt hungry le still want to eat but no time show starting =)
before entering the cinema me and serene buy a large popcorn and two "large" coke.. we found our sit and sat down i thought the show had started le then i see my watch 2.35.. then i was thinking that did we go to the right hall?? why the show still had nt start? then finally 2.40 the show stared WTH....
the show was super nice i like it so much ^^ hope will have NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 3 ^^
that show was funny and i keep laughing lol!! ha ha
then after the show we all went to BK to eat something(but i did not eat anything) then sd,zr,kj,yf and Sebastian went to the arcade to play then i got a call from my mother telling me that my cousin is in the hospital and ask me to go see him then me and serene went home first.. i forget to tell yf all that i going to the hospital.. sorry la. at jp interchange waited for 180 to come.... then at bus serene felt tired and fall asleep until bp interchange....
k la end of the post ^^ i had a super fun time going out with u all yea!!! hope that we still had a chance to go out again =) bye!
- 12:27 AM;
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Oh yea!! exam over :) happy is happy but hor at home got nothing to do le.... going to school is better then staying at home so boring~~
Go out? all friends staying at home....
k la post until here going to sleep la =)
Bye~~
- 6:09 AM;
Sunday, May 17, 2009
welll exam time i now should be studying but i don't feel like studying so stress~~ no choice la N-level coming ma must work hard for the paper...tomorrow is math paper 2 and chem!!!!! i HATE chem i HATE IT my chem will sure fail de lo :) then next Tues is POA paper 2 sure get low marks haiz... i think after teacher mark my class poa paper she will vomit blood :). the paper is too difficult last year my class also did very badly she was so angry and walk out of the class.... the whole class like so happy =.=
End of my posting hope to get good result ^^
bye~~
- 1:19 AM;
