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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Lee Grimsditch

Doctor Who star's amazing family connection to 'Titanic's last survivor'

Today is the 110th anniversary of the sinking of the great passenger liner the Titanic.

Back in 2017, the Liverpool Echo spoke to Liverpool actor Stephen McGann, brother of Paul McGann, about his family connection to the tragedy in which more than 1,500 people lost their lives. Stephen revealed his great uncle Jimmy was the Titanic's last survivor.

Born in 1882, Jimmy from Liverpool was employed as a fireman in one of the ship's boiler rooms. His incredible story was saved for posterity thanks to an interview he gave to the New York Tribune after he and fellow survivors arrived in the city on the Carpathia.

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