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Eliza Gladys Milvina Dean

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Anniston, Missouri

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Lee County, North Carolina

	True Survivors : ET Research (2007) by Brian J. Ticehurst - 14 April 2007
		Dainton has had a very busy and full life and at one time was a visitor guide in Truro Cathedral where there is a memorial to her father who was lost in the disaster.
		West always refused to discuss the Titanic disaster and with just a couple of exceptions she wanted ‘’nothing to do with Titanic interested people’’.
		They have both been a credit to the Titanic and to their generation.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /true_survivors_millvina_dean_barbara_west.html (358 words)

	Living Titanic survivors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barbara West married in 1952 and currently lives in Truro, England.
		Millvina and her family boarded Titanic as third-class passengers at Southampton with the intention of emigrating to Wichita, Kansas.
		Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor, died at the age of 99 on May 6, 2006 at her home in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Living_Titanic_Survivors (364 words)

	Living Titanic Survivors: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Lillian gertrud asplund (born october 21, 1906) is one of three survivors of the sinking of rms titanic still alive as of april 15, 2004....
		Barbara joyce west (born may 24, 1911) is one of only 3 survivors of the sinking of rms titanic still alive as of april 15, 2004....
		Eliza gladys milvina dean (born february 2, 1912) is one of only 3 survivors of the sinking of rms titanic still alive as of april 15, 2004....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/living_titanic_survivors.htm (151 words)

	RMS Titanic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Titanic was 882 ft 9 in (269 m) long and 92 ft 6 in (28 m) at its beam, it had a Gross Register Tonnage of 46,328 tons, and a height from the water line to the boat deck of 60 ft (18 m).
		Titanic was divided into 16 compartments with doors that were held by a magnetic latch and would fall by moving a switch on the bridge; however, the watertight bulkheads did not reach the entire height of the decks (only going as far as E-Deck).
		Titanic was once used in the plot of the NBC soap opera Passions, where the lovers Luis and Sheridan discovered that they were passengers on the ship in past lives (and that the witch Tabitha caused the iceberg).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RMS_Titanic (8298 words)

	RMS TITANIC, INC
		Titanic was delivered to the White Star Line in early April, and on 10 April 1912, the Titanic left Southampton, England, for her first trip to New York City.
		Olympic made her debut in 1911, and by the time of Titanic’s maiden voyage in 1912, several changes were made in the latter ship’s design including the addition of more luxury suites and the enclosing the forward Promenade Deck.
		After the Titanic sank, the story of her loss was turned into a modern fable and the original description "practically unsinkable" became just "unsinkable" in order to sharpen the moral of the story.
	www.rmstitanic.net /index.php4?page=faq (1755 words)

	Lillian Asplund - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was thought to be the last Titanic survivor with actual memories of the sinking, as the remaining survivors were less than one year old at the time.
		Asplund was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and her family had been visiting her grandmother in Sweden prior to boarding the Titanic to return home.
		Following her death, only two of the 705 Titanic survivors are still alive, both living in England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lillian_Asplund (544 words)

	RMS Titanic - Wikipedia
		RMS Titanic (also SS Titanic) was the second of a trio of superliners intended to dominate the transatlantic travel business.[1] Owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, the Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of its launching.
		Titanic was 882 ft 9 in (269 m) long and 92 ft 6 in (28 m) at its beam, it had a gross tonnage of 46,328 tons, and a height from the water line to the boat deck of 60 ft (18 m).
		However, Titanic's death toll was exceeded by the explosion and sinking of the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River in 1865, where 1,700 died.
	www.titanic-nautical.com /RMS-Titanic-W.html (5712 words)

	The Radio Legacy of the RMS Titanic
		The sinking of the Titanic, on the fifth day of her maiden voyage, on April 14, 1912, has been compared to the Challenger explosion on January 28, 1986.
		Titanic could have floated with two of her sixteen watertight compartments flooded, but as a result of this "string" of damage to her hull, the first five compartments were flooded.
		In the aftermath of the Titanic tragedy, there was a flood of coverage by the press, and a series of investigations by the British and the U.S. governments.
	www.avsia.com /djohnson/titanic.html (1863 words)

	RMS Titanic - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Titanic was divided into 16 watertight compartments with doors that were held by a magnetic latch and would fall by moving a switch on the bridge; however, the bulkheads did not traverse the entire height of the decks (only going as far as E-Deck).
		Titanic was at the time one of the worst maritime disasters in history in terms of loss of life, a similar disaster of this scale having never happened out on the heavily travelled North Atlantic route.
		However, Titanic's death toll was exceeded by the explosion and sinking of the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River in 1865, where 1,700 died.
	www.voyager.in /RMS_Titanic (6421 words)

	survivor \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Survivor is a popular reality television game show produced in many countries throughout the world.
		Survivor, based on the successful Swedish show Expedition: Robinson, is commonly considered the mother of reality TV because it was the first highly-rated and profitable reality show on broadcast television.
		Survivor benefits come in two types: first, the "transition" type pays the named beneficiary a monthly amount for a short period (usually 24 months).
	www.babylon.com /definition/survivor (263 words)

	Newspaper Account of Titanic Disaster
		The tragedy of the Titanic was written on the faces of nearly all of her survivors.
		The speed of the Titanic, estimated to be at least 21 knots, was so terrific that the knifelife edge of the iceberg's spur protruding under the sea cut through her like a can opener.
		Many of the survivors assert positively that not a woman was to be seen on any of the decks at the time the officers of the Titanic gave the word for the men to enter the lifeboats.
	www.minford.k12.oh.us /mhs/history/Titanic.htm (2167 words)

	Titanic
		Both survivors and people who lost their lives have descendents and relatives living now in villages near the towns of Teteven, Troyan, Loukovit and Pleven (Central Northern Bulgaria).
		Today, 86 years after the catastrophe of "Titanic", the name of a Bulgarian emigrant is involved in the creation of the supermovie of the same name.
		He is the constructor of the 13-meter high model of "Titanic", as well as co-author of the two prop icebergs employed in the superproduction.
	www.omda.bg /engl/news/titan.htm (654 words)

	#4357 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		One of five living Titanic survivors, she traveled from her home outside Southampton, England, to attend today's convention opening.
		The society invited one of five living Titanic survivors to the convention, Millvina Dean, 86.
		She was a 9-week-old baby on the Titanic and knew nothing of the ship until her mother remarried and told her, at age 8, that she had lost her father in the catastrophe.
	www.cincypost.com /living/1998/titanic041798.html (321 words)

	Living Titanic Survivors - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Survivor : quotations: Survival: Philip is a living example…
		Philip is a living example of natural selection.
		Titanic Disaster, one of the worst maritime disasters in history.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Living+Titanic+Survivors (142 words)

	TitanicBookSite.com: Robin Gardiner
		One on-line editorial states: “the reader will be able to determine that Titanic was not alone in being a victim of the company's cavalier seamanship, that many of the company's archives have mysteriously disappeared, that the company's ownership was labyrinthine (involving, as it did, the noted financier J P Morgan), and much else”.
		It is no mistake that this book was published long after the survivors were all dead, as otherwise the author would possibly have had multiple lawsuits on his hands.
		His answer to the argument that Titanic’s B deck had cabins built out to the sides of the hull, while Olympic had an open promenade around B deck is to state that partitions were thrown up to make it look as though passenger quarters were really there.
	www.titanicbooksite.com /GardinerRobin.html (2004 words)

	Titanic Historical Society, Inc. - Preservation
		The Titanic Historical Society is without equal in its effort to preserve the accurate account of what happened that night in the cold North Atlantic.
		Titanic survivors and crew members of Carpathia, the rescue ship, and their families have donated hundreds of artifacts, letters, postcards and their given accounts of what happened that night.
		That remarkable wireless message, on display in The Titanic Museum, is one of the key pieces of history in the entire Titanic chronicle.
	www.titanichistoricalsociety.org /articles/preservation.asp (1019 words)

	Jim's Titanic Passenger Stories & News
		Titanic had been hailed unsinkable, but went down just three hours after hitting an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland during her maiden voyage from Southampton.
		Edith Brown Haisman, the oldest survivor of the Titanic, died at the age of 100.
		Like most survivors, she refused to talk about the sinking and her own children, when young, did not know that she had been on the Titanic.It was only after her retirement, when she was living in Santa Barbara, California, that she began speaking about it, granting interviews and attending conventions of the Titanic Histrorical Society.
	www.keyflux.com /titanic/passdata.htm (4397 words)

	Titanic Historical Society, Inc. - The Titanic Commutator
		The Titanic Commutator is a proven asset to anyone interested in, or researching Titanic and the White Star Line, especially when used in combination with our listing of articles and topics by issue from the very first issue through the most recent.
		The Society is dedicated to preserving the history of Titanic, the accounts of survivors and the contributions of its members.
		When Titanic survivor, Walter Belford died, he had no family survivors and his landlady threw all of his Titanic artifacts, letters, and documents into the garbage.
	www.titanic1.org /membership/commutator.asp (1100 words)

	JOM Article on The Titanic: Did a Metallurgical Failure Cause a Night to Remember?
		The construction of the Titanic was delayed due to an accident involving the Olympic.
		The steel used in constructing the RMS Titanic was probably the best plain carbon ship plate available in the period of 1909 to 1911, but it would not be acceptable at the present time for any construction purposes and particularly not for ship construction.
		Interestingly, although the Ulster Titanic Society opposes the salvage of the wreck, the society believes that as long as salvage work continues, RMS Titanic, Inc., is the best salvor to do the job.
	www.tms.org /pubs/journals/JOM/9801/Felkins-9801.html (6597 words)

	Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board: Living Titanic Survivors
		I realize that the list of actual survivors of the wreck still living has dwindled the past 20 or so years to what I'm sure by now amounts to single digits, just as WW II vets are now leaving this world in record numbers.
		Thanks for the links, they were really good to read, I was actually a little surprised that the survivors still living had dwindled to 3 (though of course that would be logical, right?) it seems that it wasn't that long ago there were at least 20 or more.
		It says that she never married, nor had children and is the last surviving passenger of the Titanic with memories of it.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /discus/messages/5921/77908.html?1139447119 (1324 words)

	"Titanic" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		In one scene Rose humiliates her dining partners (including her mother) by self-righteously concluding that the Titanic represented a phallic symbol to one of the guests at the table.
		As the Titanic is sinking, we are treated to the heroism and cowardice of the passengers.
		We experience the story of the Titanic though her words as she recounts the events to her granddaughter and the crew of the salvage ship.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/pre2000/i-titanic.html (2068 words)

	Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces
		These pieces were little known and never examined for their role in the sinking, and they tell a new and potentially more terrifying story of Titanic's final moments, rewriting the script that had previously been taken as fact.
		Titanic historian and author Simon Mills has referred to it as: “…possibly the most significant pieces of evidence that have been uncovered since the wreck was located in 1985.”
		Survivors’ recollections of the disaster and exploration of why the memories of those who were there can seem so vastly different from one another.
	www.titanic-nautical.com /RMS-Titanic-Final-Moments.html (635 words)

	Titanic- 20 Facts About Titanic
		The Titanic was constructed by the White Star Line in shipyards at Belfast, Northern Ireland; completed on March 31, 1912.
		Titanic's maiden voyage began on April 7, 1912.
		Survivors were rescued by the steamer, Carpathia, which had been 58 miles away when it received distress signal.
	www.cob.montevallo.edu /CockerMJ/Titanic4.HTM (290 words)

	Newspaper Coverage of the Sinking
		After all, Mt. Pelee had erupted ten years before, at a loss of over 40,000 lives and, while it was widely reported, it never achieved the same impact on the world's psyche.
		The Titanic was 882.5 feet long, 92.5 feet beam (wide), and was 60.5 feet from the waterline to the boat deck.
		Within days, however, the name Titanic would not go down as one of the fastest, and the most luxurious ship afloat, but it would simply go down.
	www.lva.lib.va.us /whoweare/exhibits/titanic/titanic1.htm (776 words)

	TITANIC - A Voyage of Discovery (alive)
		With coat in hand she headed up the many flights of stairs to the Main-Deck (Boat-Deck). As she was nearing the top of the final flight she felt a tiny bump that interrupted the constant motion she had grown accustomed to over the last four days.
		Richard and Sally survived the sinking of the Titanic in Lifeboat #5.
		Archibald Gracie was the third survivor of Titanic to die, being preceded in death by Maria Nackid on July 30th, 1912 and Eugenie Baclini on August 30th, 1912.
	www.euronet.nl /users/keesree/alive.htm (8671 words)

	Amazon.com: Titanic Survivors: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Titanic still represents one of the worst maritime disasters in the history of mankind.
		April 14, 1912: the unthinkable happened to the unsinkable: on the maiden voyage of the Titanic with 1517 passengers aboard, the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank two hours later.
		This documentary, produced 70 years later while survivors were still alive to tell their story, recalls events leading up to and during that frigid hellish night as recalled firsthand by actual passengers, crew and others.
	www.amazon.com /Titanic-Survivors/dp/B000A77INA (444 words)

	A Hymn To Remember
		The search is made more difficult by a host of legends that have cropped up, and by the fact that few of the Titanic's survivors seem to have been blessed with a very good musical ear.
		His friends and relatives firmly believed that this was the version played on the Titanic, and in fact, the opening bars are carved on the monument over his grave.
		According to ValIance, the general opinion among ship musicians was that the Titanic's band played "Songe d'Automne" at least part of the time, and he himself was told this by more than one survivor.
	home.earthlink.net /~rlbroberg/Richard/NearerMyGodToThee/TheSoundOfMusic.html (3600 words)

	Titanic
		Lloyd's of London, the firm which had insured the Titanic, had reasoned that the probability of such an event was one in a million.
		Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters.
		The author claims that we are living hundreds of years behind our intended level of technology and that we must recapture this "lost science." Rediscover the legendary names of our suppressed scientific revolution and read about the remarkable lives, astounding discoveries and incredible inventions that would have produced a world of wonder.
	www.occultopedia.com /t/titanic.htm (4131 words)

	Titanic Survivors' Hearts Not So Unsinkable
		Hanley and colleagues compared the birth and death dates of Titanic survivors with those of comparison groups in the U.S. and Sweden.
		In this study, survivors of the 1912 maritime disaster did, on average, live a bit longer than the comparison groups.
		Be that as it may, three Titanic survivors -- now in their 90s -- remain alive.
	www.webmd.com /content/article/78/95906.htm (281 words)

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