# Last Titanic survivor sells off her mementoes
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-titanic-survivor-sells-off-her-mementoes/468287
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 16, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-titanic-survivor-sells-off-her-mementoes/468287 "2008-10-16T23:22:22Z")
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### Author:  [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-titanic-survivor-sells-off-her-mementoes/468287/1 "2008-10-16T23:22:22Z")
Apparently she needs the money to pay her nursing homes fees: [Link](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24509877-23109,00.html)
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### Author:  [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-titanic-survivor-sells-off-her-mementoes/468287/2 "2008-10-17T00:31:04Z")
By any chance is her name Rose?
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### Author:  [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2008, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-titanic-survivor-sells-off-her-mementoes/468287/3 "2008-10-17T11:42:43Z")
rembere all the junk that the french expedition took off the bottom? Old toilet seats, wine bottles, shoes, other assorted junk-how much did collectors pay for it? As i recall, the French were widely criticized for taking the stuff-God knows why (to me, it would be like stealing from an unattended junkyard).
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2008, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-titanic-survivor-sells-off-her-mementoes/468287/4 "2008-10-17T11:48:42Z")
Ah, I thought this said memoirs, and was thinking, “Um, she was two months old when it happened.”