Barbara West

Barbara Joyce Dainton (née West, 24 May 1911 – 16 October 2007) was the penultimate remaining survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 14 April 1912 after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage. She was the last living survivor who travelled second-class on the ship. Early life Barbara Joyce West was born in Bournemouth, Hampshire (now Dorset), England, on 24 May 1911 to Edwy Arthur West and Ada Mary Worth. Ada had given birth to a daughter, Constance, in 1907, and was pregnant with a third child when she boarded the Titanic. Edwy decided to start a new life in the fruit culture business in Gainesville, Florida, and, along with his expectant wife and two children, were emigrating there by way of the Titanic. Aboard Titanic Barbara, her parents, and older sister, Constance, boarded the Titanic on 10 April 1912 at Southampton, England, as second-class passengers. Barbara was just ten months and eighteen days old, making her the eighth-youngest passenger on board the ship.