One of only three living survivors of the Titanic disaster toured an exhibition of artefacts salvaged from the wreck of the ill-fated liner, describing the display as "fantastic".
Millvina Dean, 91, from Woodlands, Southampton, said last night while touring the exhibition: "Children still ask me all the time about the Titanic. I think it's become a piece of history, particularly because people said it was unsinkable and it was so luxurious, the most luxurious ever built."
Ms Dean was just nine weeks old when the ship went down claiming 1,500 lives.
The new exhibition at London's Science Museum has about 200 artefacts from the historic liner rescued from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.
It tells the stories of some of the passengers from the first class millionaires to the third class immigrants aboard the White Star liner on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.
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