Titanic memorial cruise sets sail

[Jimbuna]

This cruise was 'sold out' over two years ago and I honestly wish I had known about it at the time.


A memorial cruise retracing the route of the Titanic to mark 100 years since the ship sank has arrived at Cobh on the south coast of Ireland.
Thousands of cheering locals welcomed the arrival of MS Balmoral, which is carrying relatives of some who died.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17652523

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17657740

[Osmium Steele]

Hope they're not going to be absolutely faithful to the Titanic's final voyage.

Perhaps a little to the left? :03:

[nikimcbee]

So Jim, if you go, make sure you dress warm and wear your life preserver.:yeah:

You can swim, right?

ya doon it now lad! In to da lifeboat wichya.:lost:

[andy_311]

Titanic is not the biggest maratime disaster in history as I recall that goes to the Wilhem Gusstoff but nobody knows about ship.(appoligies if am wrong)

[Garion]

Titanic is not the biggest maratime disaster in history as I recall that goes to the Wilhem Gusstoff but nobody knows about ship.(appoligies if am wrong)

German Ship WW2 evacuating civilians when Army Group North was being over run, sunk by Soviet Sub in the Baltic..?

Popping off to Google to check :D

Back: http://www.wilhelmgustloff.com/sinking.htm
Cheers

Garion

[Platapus]

For those people who have visited Washington DC, have you seen the Titanic Memorial?

Until the advent of the Internets Tubes and Wikipedia, it was one of the best kept secrets of DC. People can live here for 20 years and never knew there was a DC Titanic Memorial. :know:

[Sailor Steve]

Yes, Wilhelm Gustloff suffered the greatest loss of life of any single sinking ever.

The greatest loss of life in a peacetime sinking ocurred just twenty-five years ago when the ferry Doña Paz collided with the tanker Vector. More than 4000 people died.

[TLAM Strike]

Titanic is not the biggest maratime disaster in history as I recall that goes to the Wilhem Gusstoff but nobody knows about ship.(appoligies if am wrong)
Sunk by the Soviet Submarine S-13 under Captain Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko.

BTW Marinesko has an awesome statue:
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/9282/marineskokaliningrad.jpg
Bet that iceberg never got a statue. :03:

[CaptainMattJ.]

Unfortunate that the sinking was more due to the fact of a wide range of human error.

one of the most prolific, but certainly not the worst.

[Jimbuna]

Bet that iceberg never got a statue. :03:

Oh but it did......it was last visited on a warm midsummer July evening in the nineteen twenties but was found to be missing for some inexplicable reason the following morning :smug: