Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Tempting fate

Titanic cruise to mark anniversary of ship's fateful voyage - Telegraph

The Balmoral, operated by Fred Olsen Cruise Lines, whose parent company Harland and Wolff built the Titanic, has been chosen for the voyage.

It will carry 1,309 passengers - the same number that sailed on the fateful voyage - on the same route as the Titanic, leaving Southmapton in early April 2012 before docking at the Irish port of Cobh (formerly Queenstown), where the Titanic made its final call on April 11, 1912.

The cruise will continue to follow the route of the Titanic and, on April 14, it will arrive at the exact location the vessel sank some 100 years before, where there will be a special memorial ceremony between 11.40pm (when the ship hit the iceberg) and 2.20am on April 15 (when the ship sank).

Go on, admit it. You secretly would love to see some disaster happen on that cruise.

1 comment:

Old Sailor Man said...

SHE and HER...not "it" and "its"!!!