Titanic anniversary cruises
Two Titanic memorial cruises are being planned for the 100th anniversary of the famous ship’s maiden voyage. Bill Willard, who developed T-Rex, a remote-operated vehicle, or ROV, that was used during the 1998 Titanic expedition, is organizing a cruise to Titanic’s sinking site to mark the 100th anniversary of the disaster. Azamara Club Cruises will send its 684-passenger Azamara Journey out of Boston on April 10, 2012, to sail to the site where Titanic sank. Willard said historians and descendants of passengers and crew will be on board to give programs. An expedition ship equipped with an ROV will meet the cruise ship at the sinking site, and the ROV will dive to the wreck and relay live video images of the ship. A memorial service will honor the ship and passengers. The cruise site is www.voyages-to-remember.com .
Also, Miles Morgan Travel, a British travel agency, has chartered the Balmoral to sail from Southampton to New York, passing the site of the disaster on April 15, 2012. A memorial service is planned at 2:20 a.m. TIS President Charles Haas and Historian Jack Eaton are scheduled to give programs on board, along with author and historian Claes-Göran Wetterholm, president of the Scandinavian Titanic Society, and many others. The website is www.titanicmemorialcruise.co.uk.
* Note: The preceding information is posted solely for the information of our members and website visitors, and does not constitute an endorsement of either cruise by Titanic International Society, its trustees or officers.
RMS Titanic 100 year Anniversary
‘Sailing from Southampton’ Grand Dinner
Tuesday 10th April 2012
Grand Café, Southampton
The dinner being held on Sunday 15th April to commemorate the tragedy of the sinking of the Titanic sold out within 4 weeks. Due to the enormous response, Grand Café has decided to replicate the dinner in every detail on Tuesday 10th April 2012. This special dinner will remember the day when the ill fated liner sailed out of Southampton at 12 noon on Tuesday 10th April 1912.
Grand Café, now a wonderfully unique bar, bistro, restaurant and venue, is the former Wedgewood Ballroom of the old South Western Hotel where many 1st Class passengers would have certainly dined and danced before departing from Southampton onboard the Titanic.
http://www.grand-cafe.co.uk/events/rms-titanic-leaving-southampton-commemorative-dinner/
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