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Last Titanic survivor dies at 97

The last remaining survivor of the sinking of the Titanic has died.

97-year-old Millvina Dean was only nine weeks old when she was carried off the sinking ship.

She spent her final years in a nursing home in Southampton on the English south coast.

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A recent campaign by the author and campaigner Don Mullan succeeded in getting the stars of the film Titanic to help pay for her nursing home fees.

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