The family was to emigrate to the United States, where the father planned to open a store with a relative. But the trip did not go as planned. During the night of April 14-15, the Titanic collided with an iceberg and began to sink. Millvina, her mother and brother were rescued in lifeboat 13. Her father, like so many other third-class men, remained on board and died in the disaster. I think it was my father who saved us. Many people never believed the Titanic could sink, but he took no chances," Millvina Dean told the Los Angeles Times in 2002. After the disaster, the family was taken back to England on the ship RMS Adriatic. Little Millvina quickly became something of a symbol – passengers queued to hold the little child who had survived the tragedy. Millvina Dean didn't talk about Titanic until the 1980s Millvina Dean grew up in Southampton and lived a secluded life for many years. It was only when she was eight that she learned what she had been through – her mother had remarried by then and started talking about her lost husband and the shipwreck.
Millvina Dean was the last survivor of the Titanic
