The memorial cruise on the route of "Titanic"

ANNIVERSARY • CRUISE • LINER • TITANIC • TOURIST

April 8 from Southampton in England sailed the ship is designed to recreate the path of "Titanic." Cruise timed to the 100th anniversary of the legendary wreck.

Liner "Balmoral" came from the British port of Southampton before and completes its journey on April 20 at New York, the route of "Titanic", which sank April 14, 1912, and have not reached the destination.

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 1. On board the ship "Balmoral" is the same number of passengers - in 1309, not including the crew members - and that a century ago aboard the "Titanic".

 2. About fifty people from the passenger liner 'Balmoral' are direct descendants of the passengers of "Titanic". In the hour of death "Titanic" on board "Balmoral" memorial funeral service will be held.

3. Initiators voyage liner "Balmoral" want to recreate only the slightest details of the flight of "Titanic" a hundred years ago. Ship "Balmoral" came out of the same port that was once the "Titanic". Ticket prices ranged from 2799 to 5995 pounds. The only difference is that the liner "Balmoral" had to leave the port for two days earlier than a century ago the "Titanic" - because, even though it is absolutely astounding, built a hundred years ago, the "Titanic" had a higher rate and was able to cross the ocean faster "Balmoral". As a result, "Balmoral" set sail two days before the departure of "Titanic to arrive in time to the place of his death.

 4. Passengers arriving from twenty-eight countries, pre-book a place on board the ship "Balmoral". Many of them arrived at the port of departure - Southampton - in costumes, reproducing traditional costumes of the era, in which passengers were dressed "Titanic" of the first class cabins. Of course, the main hope of the organizers of the memorial cruise is hoped that the "Balmoral" to arrive in the port of destination - New York - unlike its ill-fated predecessor.

5. Three generations of the family of Frey from London and Manchester - Graham, Marilyn, David, Ethan, Rose, Jack and Stan - arrived in Southampton. In historical costumes are preparing to board the ship "Balmoral" go on the cruise memorial in memory of the catastrophe of "Titanic", which took place a century ago.

 6. John Philip of South Coast, New South Wales, Australia, wearing a bowler hat in the fashion of the early twentieth century and a life jacket on board the ship "Balmoral" go on the cruise memorial in memory of the catastrophe of "Titanic", which took place a century ago.

 7. Passengers who are prepared to go to the memorial cruise in memory of the catastrophe of "Titanic", which occurred a century ago, during a tour of the memorial complex "Titanic" in Kobe, Ireland.

 8. Passengers don the life jackets during evacuation training aboard ship "Balmoral" go on the cruise memorial in memory of the catastrophe of "Titanic", which took place a century ago.

9. marine painter James Allen Flood of Del Ray Beach, Florida, working on a painting depicting a hypothetical arrival of "Titanic" in New York.

10. Mary Betty Crocker in a historical costume, the playback order of the early twentieth century, poses for a photo. At the memorial cruise aboard "Balmoral" she went with her husband.

11. Passengers waving mourners from aboard the cruise ship "Balmoral", which left the port of Southampton, going to the memorial cruise in memory of "Titanic."

12. A boy poses with a souvenir edition of the newspaper dedicated to the "Titanic" in Southampton.

13. Tormod Gaazbakk and Anna Isabella Aday of Trondheim, Norway, arrived in Cobh, Ireland.

14. It is in Kobe, Ireland, the first stop scheduled liner "Balmoral"

15. Girl on the quay in Kobe, Ireland, near the monument to emigrants. Kobe planned first stop liner "Balmoral".