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  • These are listed on wiki as the last ten survivors: Beatrice Irene Sandström (9 August 1910 – 3 September 1995), died aged 85 Eva Miriam Hart (31 January 1905 – 14 February 1996), died aged 91 Edith Eileen Haisman (née Brown) (27 October 1896 – 20 January 1997), died aged 100 Louise Laroche (2 July 1910 – 28 January 1998), died aged 88 Eleanor Ileen Shuman (née Johnson) (23 August 1910 – 9 March 1998), died aged 87 Michel Marcel Navratil (12 June 1908 – 30 January 2001), died aged 92 (last male survivor, the eldest of the brothers known as the Titanic Orphans) Winnifred Vera van Tongerloo (née Quick) (23 January 1904 – 6 July 2002), died aged 98 Lillian Gertrud Asplund (21 October 1906 – 6 May 2006), died aged 99 (last survivor who could remember the sinking) Barbara Joyce Dainton (née West) (born 24 May 1911), currently the oldest living survivor Elizabeth Gladys Dean (born 2 February 1912), youngest passenger and survivor Robertha Josephine "Bertha" Marshall (née Watt) and Ellen Natalia "Helen" Callaghan (née Shine), at the time of their deaths, the twelfth and eleventh remaining survivors, died in close proximity: Marshall died on 4 March 1993 and Callaghan on 5 March 1993 at ages 93 and 101 respectively. Callaghan was the last remaining Titanic survivor from Ireland. On May 6, 2006, the last American survivor and the last survivor to have memories of Titanic's sinking, Lillian Gertrud Asplund, died at her home in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Asplund, who was just 5 years old at the time, lost her father and three brothers (including her fraternal twin) in the tragedy. Her mother Selma Asplund and brother Felix, then three, survived. Selma Asplund had died on the anniversary of the sinking in 1964.[43] At the time of Lillian Asplund's death, survivors Barbara West Dainton of Truro, England, ten months old at the time of the sinking, and Millvina Dean of Southampton, England, who was 10 weeks old, were still living, but were too young to have memories of the catastrophe. Therefore, with the death of Lillian Gertrude Asplund, first-hand passenger experience of the Titanic's sinking has passed out of living memory. About the ship itself: Upon discovery in 1985, a legal debate began over ownership of the wreck and the valuable artefacts inside. On June 7, 1994, RMS Titanic Inc. was awarded ownership and salvaging rights of the wreck[37] by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. (See Admiralty law)[38] RMS Titanic Inc., a subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions Inc., and its predecessors have conducted seven expeditions to the wreck between 1987 and 2004 and salvaged over 5,500 objects. The biggest single recovered artifact was a 17-ton section of the hull, recovered in 1998.[39] Many of these artifacts are part of travelling museum exhibitions. Beginning in 1987, a joint American-French expedition, which included the predecessor of RMS Titanic Inc., began salvage operations and, during 32 dives, recovered approximately 1,800 artifacts which were taken to France for conservation and restoration. In 1993, a French administrator in the Office of Maritime Affairs of the Ministry of Equipment, Transportation, and Tourism awarded RMS Titanic Inc's predecessor title to the artifacts recovered in 1987. In a motion filed on February 12, 2004, RMS Titanic Inc. requested that the District Court enter an order awarding it "title to all the artifacts (including portions of the hull) which are the subject of this action pursuant to the law of finds" or, in the alternative, a salvage award in the amount of $225 million. RMS Titanic Inc. excluded from its motion any claim for an award of title to the 1987 artifacts. But it did request that the district court declare that, based on the French administrative action, "the artifacts raised during the 1987 expedition are independently owned by RMST." Following a hearing, the district court entered an order dated July 2, 2004, in which it refused to grant comity and recognize the 1993 decision of the French administrator, and rejected RMS Titanic Inc's claim that it should be awarded title to the artifacts recovered since 1993 under the maritime law of finds. RMS Titanic Inc. appealed to the United States court of appeals. In its decision of January 31, 2006[40] the court recognized "explicitly the appropriateness of applying maritime salvage law to historic wrecks such as that of Titanic" and denied the application the maritime law of finds. The court also ruled that the district court lacked jurisdiction over the "1987 artifacts", and therefore vacated that part of the court's July 2, 2004 order. In other words, according to this decision, RMS Titanic Inc. has ownership title to the artifacts awarded in the French decision (valued $16.5 million earlier) and continues to be salvor-in-possession of the Titanic wreck. The Court of Appeals remanded the case to the District Court to determine the salvage award ($225 million requested by RMS Titanic Inc.)
  • As of May 9th of 2006 there were only two survivors left, both infants at the time of the sinking and have no recollection of it. Barbara Joyce West Dainton of Truro, UK and Elizabeth Gladys Dean of Southampton, UK. As for visits to the wreck. A salvage claim has been issued on it by RMS Titanic Inc. Basically, they own the right to the ship, including the ability in court to stop anyone they like, from trespassing on it. Currently, Deep Ocean Adventures has been the only "Titanic tourist" submersible company that's been allowed to visit the wreck.http://www.deepoceanexpeditions.com/about2.html
  • apparently it costs $2000 to go on the titanic tour on a submarine and as titanic is rotting away all the time in ten years it will be gone!
  • there is only one living survivor named Millvina Dean and she is very old so i dont think you could visit her.
  • Sadly, Millvina Dean, the last living survivor, passed away on May 31, 2009 at the age of 97.
  • Sorry Last Titanic survivor Millvina Dean Died a little over a week ago :(

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