Leonardo DiCaprio and actress Kate Winslet have donated funds to the last survivor of the Titanic disaster.

The pair starred in the movie based on the 1912 tragic sinking of the ship. The director of 'Titanic', James Cameroon, also contributed $30 000, to a fund for 98-year-old Millvina Dean to ensure that she remains in her English nursing home.

DiCaprio and Winslet were moved by an appeal that appeared in the Irish Independent Newspaper.

Don Mullan has attempted selling a special photograph of Millvina's hands, entitled "Still Surviving", to raise funds for her. He later decided to ask for help to those who worked on 'Titanic'.

He said: "An old woman, still trying to survive, this time from drowning under the weight of meeting her nursing home expenses, simply wasn't right, especially given the enormous sums of money the story of the Titanic had generated in the recent past.

"There were people out there who could, and I felt, morally should, help her. To fail Millvina Dean, the last tangible living link to the Titanic, would make a mockery of the world's expressed concern for the tragedy."

Millvina was only nine weeks old when she was boarded the ship as it was on its way to America from South Hampton, England in 1912.

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