RMS Titanic by numerous works of popular culture, including books, folk songs, films, exhibits, and memorials. "Titanic" is the second largest ocean liner wreck in the world, only beaten by her sister , the largest ever sunk, although she holds the record as the largest sunk while actually in service as a liner due to "Britannic" being used as a hospital ship at the time of her sinking. The final survivor of the sinking, Millvina Dean, aged two months at the time, died in 2009 at the age of 97. The name "Titanic" was derived the Titan of Greek mythology and meant
Ceylan (ship) the disaster. They were brought ashore by the "Ceylan". The "Ceylan", after 27 years' service, was scrapped on March 21, 1934 in La Spezia Italy. Ceylan (ship) The Ceylan was a passenger ship of the French shipping company Compagnie des Chargeurs Réunis, which was put into service in 1907 and withdrawn in 1934. In January 1920, it took on board the 34 survivors of the passenger ship Afrique (1907), which had sunk in the Bay of Biscay in a storm. The 8223-ton Steamboat "Ceylan" was built at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Wallsend, England for the French