Titanic Memorial Cruise has been forced to turn round just hours after leaving the dock, having set sail to retrace the doomed liner’s voyage across the Atlantic. MS Balmoral – carrying relatives of Titanic victims among its 1,309 passengers, the same number as on the doomed ship – was forced to turn around and head towards the Irish coast after a passenger became unwell on board. A spokesp…
The Titanic disaster has been revealed in extraordinary detailed images after researchers have pieced together what is believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field. Researchers hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened on that fateful night 100 years ago when the superliner hit an iceberg and plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic…
A hundred years after Titanic sank, expeditions to the ship, in depths of the Atlantic Ocean, are coming to close to allow the ship to rest in peace. Rob McCallum, who works for the deep-sea exploration company that took 150 people down there, describes what they saw. “As the craft glides through the freezing depths of the ocean, more than two miles below the surface, I stare out through the thic…
Relatives of some who died on the Titanic have set sail aboard of MS Balmoral to retrace the journey of the doomed liner to mark 100 years since the disaster. MS Balmoral has left Southampton docks, retracing the route of the ill-fated cruise liner’s maiden voyage. The ship, carrying 1,309 passengers – the same number as were on the Titanic – is due to reach the wreck site next…
Titanic Memorial Cruise is finished as Balmoral ship has arrived in New York, after completing its journey to mark the centenary of the Titanic disaster. The ship left Southampton on 8 April, and traced the route of Titanic’s tragic maiden voyage. The MS Balmoral held a ceremony above the wreck on 15 April, exactly 100 years after the Titanic sank. Many of those on board the memorial cruise…
Several events across the world are marking today the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, including the ship’s birthplace Belfast. A Titanic Memorial Garden – with the names of 1,512 victims etched on five bronze plaques – is being opened close to where the liner was launched. A service is being held in Southampton where the voyage to New York began. And at the Nort…
…weeks after the centenary of the sinking of the ill-fated Titanic. The vessel, the largest luxury ship in its time, struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. It went down on 15 April 1912, leaving more than 1,500 people dead. Australian Clive Palmer has commissioned a Chinese state-owned company to build a 21st Century version of the Titanic “Of course it will sin…
A collection of more than 200,000 records relating to the Titanic has been published online to mark the 100th anniversary from the ship’s sinking on 15 April 1912. The documents provide information about survivors and the 1,500 people who died, including a number of wills and hundreds of coroner inquest files. The collection has been gathered by the subscription-based family history website…
Relatives of victims of the Titanic today threw roses off the Southampton dockside in memory of their loved ones during a moving 100th anniversary memorial service. A minute’s silence was also held today in remembrance of the 1517 passengers and crew who lost their lives on the famous liner’s ill-dated maiden voyage. The south coast city has special reason to mark the Titanic disaster…
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After seven years of investigation, auctioneers found out that the violin thought to be the one played by the band leader of the Titanic as it sank is genuine. Wallace Hartley and his orchestra famously played on as the Titanic sank in 1912 and were among the 1,500 who died. In 2006, Titanic specialist auction house Henry Aldridge and Son in Wiltshire were approached by the violin’s owner w…
…the provocative portrait, and the doomed lovers begin a tragically short-lived affair. Cinemagoers took to the internet to express their dismay after watching the new version of James Cameron’s 1997 disaster epic, which won 11 Oscars after its first release. Offbeat China, a blog about the country’s internet culture, quoted one commenter as saying: “I waited 15 years to see 3D boobs,…
…row of the ship. And the whole dramatic scene is lit up like a Hollywood movie by the many lights on the cruise ship, which would soon plunge into darkness as it sank into the water, claiming at least 16 lives. Today, search efforts aboard the doomed liner continued, but an official overseeing the operation acknowledged for the first time that it would take a miracle to find any more survivors. L…
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…o is also known locally by the name Alex. According to local media reports Cetin Recep stabbed Marion Graham, 54, in the heart and cut Kathy Dinsmore’s throat. Both women were stabbed as many as 15 times. Cetin Recep confessed the Izmir murders. Cetin Recep clashed with Shannon Graham’s mother, Marion, last week when she learned he had kicked Shannon during a fight. Raymond McGuinness said…
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Male leggings – or meggings to those in the know – are the latest trends in men’s fashion in 2013 as they have already been spotted on outlandishly-dressed celebrities such as Russell Brand and Noel Fielding. And this winter they have started to take New York by storm, sported by the likes of Justin Bieber and Lenny Kravitz. Now they are expected to follow the skinny jeans trend by crossing the A…
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