Last Titanic Survivor Selling Her Mementos To Pay Bills

LONDON :- Millvina Dean 97-year-old, the last living survivor of the Titanic is auctioning off her remaining mementos of the doomed ship to pay nursing home bills. The auction, which is expected to raise up to $50,000 for her, is set to take place Saturday near her home in England.

Among the items going under the hammer at Henry Aldridge & Son is a canvas bag that might have been used to lift the infant Dean from a lifeboat to a rescue ship, said Alan Aldridge of the auction house.

"I am not able to live in my home anymore. I am selling it all now because I have to pay these nursing home fees and am selling anything that I think might fetch some money," she tells the paper. "The fees are quite expensive. The more money I can get from the auction the better."

Millvina Dean was just 2 months old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat from the deck of the sinking RMS Titanic. The passenger ship sank in 1912.