Bidspirit auction | Rare Titanic survivor B.V. Dean

Rare Titanic survivor B.V. Dean signed Maritime England-1982 R.M.S Titanic FDC. Bertram Dean was born on May 21, 1910, in London. His parents, Bertram Frank Dean and Eva Georgette Light, owned a pub in the British capital but planned to emigrate to the United States, to Wichita in Kansas. Members of their family were already living there. Their aim was to open a tobacco store. Bertram had a younger sister, Elizabeth Gladys Dean, nicknamed Millvina who was born on February 2, 1912. She would later become one of the most famous, most popular and longest living Titanic survivors ever, while she was also officially the youngest passenger aboard the ship. Bertram boarded the Titanic with his parents and sister at Southampton on Wednesday April 10, 1912, as a Third Class passenger. He was soon to be two years old while Millvina was only a few weeks old. The Deans were originally to board the Adriatic but a coal strike caused the transfer of passengers to the new White Star liner which was then making its inaugural crossing. The Deans were in their cabin when the liner struck an iceberg on the evening of April 14, 1912. Bertram Frank, awakened by the noise, came up on deck to find out what was happening. Alerted by the news, he went back down to his cabin and woke up his wife, ordering her to dress the two children warmly and get on the Boat Deck. Once there, it is difficult to establish with certainty the sequence of events. Although Eva Dean did embark on the same lifeboat as her daughter, we cannot however know whether the young Bertram Vere was also with his mother or whether, or was lost in the crowd and the confusion, and been in another lifeboat. In any case, the two children were saved, which was not the case for Father Bertram Frank Dean who died in the sinking and whose body, subsequently, was probably never found. Good condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide.