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Vintage photo taken in April 1912 of the so-called "Titanic Orphans" Michel (left) and Edmond (right) Navratil. The French brothers, aged just three and two, became famous in the aftermath of the sinking of RMS Titanic as they were the only children rescued from the doomed ship without a parent or guardian and their identities were initially a mystery. It later emerged that their Czech-born father, also called Michel, had registered the three of them under false names after taking the pair without the permission of his estranged wife, who had custody of them. He went down with the ship on April 15 1912 after getting his children onto a lifeboat when the Titanic began sinking after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. More than 1500 people died but the boys survived and were eventually re-united with their mother Marcelle Caretto following media appeals for help in identifying them. Michel was one of the last survivors of the Titanic - living until 2001 when he died aged 92. His brother Edmond died in 1953 at the age of 43. Photo by Bain News Service.
