Talk:Millvina Dean

Youngest passenger

Millvina, at just over two months old, was the youngest passenger on the ship, not counting unborn children. She was the youngest passenger and the youngest survivor. After that, there was 4-month old Gilbert Danbom, who perished, and 5-month old Assad Alexander, who survived, 7-month old Alfred Peacock, who perished, and 8-month old Viljo/William Hämäläinen, who survived. Sibley Richards and Helene Baclini were both 9-months old, and Alden Caldwell, Barbara West, and Frank Aks were 10-months. Trevor Allison was the only 11-month old, then there are several year old children. Millvina, though, at two months, was the youngest passenger on board the ship. Morhange 05:43, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Actually, there is a bit of contradiction with another article. The article Sinking of the RMS Titanic mentions her at the bottom, and states that she was two months old at the time. However, this article states that she was one month old at the time. Someone needs to do some research to find out how old she was at the time and correct the incorrect article. Looneyman (talk) 13:34, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, she was both, actually! Millvina was 7 weeks old on April 10 when the ship set sail, but turned two months on the 12th. So she was one month old when the ship set sail, but two months old when it sank :) Morhange (talk) 00:13, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

There's also a mistake in this article - apparently she was 1 month old when she boarded on 10th of April but 2 months old on the 2nd of April I'd change it but i have no idea what i'm meant to change it to! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.205.29.244 (talk) 22:37, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Death?

I have found a link from the West Briton, Truro edition, which announces that she has now died. Nicemum (talk) 23:59, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

If you mean this, it refers to the death of Barbara West. Morhange (talk) 01:50, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I see what you mean: During that time the very last British survivor, Millvina Dean, died in Hampshire at the age of 95. I'm sure if Millvina had died, there would be significant news coverage, especially considering it is now four months later. Morhange (talk) 01:51, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Lifeboat charities

Recent text suggests that the residue of the Millvina fund is going to RNLI, and Irish National Lifeboat Institute. A quick google shows no INLI, and according to the International Life Saving Federation, the RNLI provides the lifeboat service for the Republic. I am not editing out the reference to Irish lifeboats, as the information must have come from somewhere, but if anyone from Ireland can confirm one way or the other, it would help, thanks IdreamofJeanie (talk) 22:36, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

ITN status

Didn't this article get removed from In the News because of inclusion disagreement? CapnZapp (talk) 07:29, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Birth

The current page shows Millvina's birth place as London in the main text, and Branscombe, Devon, in the side bar. I interviewed Millvina some years ago in Australia and I'm sure she mentioned she and her father had been born and baptised in Branscombe, also that she returned there to live at Culverwell House with her grandparents, after the Titanic sank. I am currently travelling but will be able to check the registers on my return to the UK. Ron Branscombe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Branscombe (talk • contribs) 00:03, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Removed article section EVENT COORDINATOR

This section was removed from the article page so the content could be saved, but improve and wiki-formatted before returning it to the article. — MrDolomite • Talk 04:36, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

EVENT COORDINATOR

Altough Millvina had different coordinators, Perry R. Duquette a Red Deer Alberta Canadian citizen was the only one to lift her handprints in public on May 24th 1999 in Edmonton Alberta http://www.canartpresspublishing.com/home-page/ The Handprints remain the only handprints of a Titanic survivor in existance Handprints of Millvina Dean During an event entitled "A Day To Remember" held at the West Edmonton Mall, Millvina agreed to do this for her favorite coordinator as she called him. While at her South Hampton residence, Duquette who is the Director of CanArt Press and Editor of Canart Media http://www.canartpresspublishing.com/director/ Director's corner]ask Millvina as to why she decided to appoint him of all people? and she replied..."I just feel a connection beyon understanding". Many photos of Dean leaving her lipstick all over his face saying "There...You take that home to your wife"During the Edmonton event Mayor Bill Smith contact Duquette requesting that his mother meet Millvina as she was on a liner called Saturnia and was 9 or 10 at the time. His mother Elizabeth Smith witnessed the flares of distress of Titanic THE RESCUEand recalled that she was told that Titanic was celebrating Her first Atlantic voyage and they were fireworks. Duquette and Mary Mandelin President of CanArt Press Corp http://www.canartpresspublishing.com/president/ Mary Mandelin]decided to launch the only Limited Print Called "The Rescue" http://www.canartpresspublishing.com/the-rescue/ signed by Both a survivor and a witness of the tragedy.--Projectproof (talk) 17:18, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

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Wichita, or Kansas City?

First the article says her family had planned to settle in Wichita. Later, in apparent contradiction, it says she visited Kansas City where the family had planned to settle. ChicagoLarry (talk) 07:16, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Help please!

Pretty fantastic stuff but I am having some difficulty digesting one part. In the "Return to the United Kingdom" section content states, " In the 2000 PBS documentary Lost Liners, in giving her account of the disaster, Millvina described the state her mother was in during the aftermath of the disaster:"

The next part is an unsourced quote, "[W]e stayed in a hospital for two or three weeks for my mother to recover a little bit, and then we came back to England; because we had nothing, we had no clothes, we had no money and of course she was so broken-hearted, she just wanted to get home." I am a little rusty on my math but the article states "Dean was nine weeks old when she boarded the ship." In 2000 she would have been 88 and "described the state her mother was in during the aftermath of the disaster:" and her mother "so broken-hearted", at a grand old age of maybe 12 weeks old. Maybe someone's math adds differently than mine? I am not doubting the events just who is recollecting what. -- Otr500 (talk) 02:00, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

I guess she would have heard these details as she was growing up from her mother/other family members and/or her mother's friends. Graham87 02:22, 8 February 2023 (UTC)