Voyage organized by Miles Morgan Travel is commemorating 100 years of Titanic maiden voyage. MS Balmoral set sail yesterday on a 12 day voyage following the route of Titanic. This vessel is owned by Fred Olsen Cruise Lines, whose parent company, Harland and Wolff, built the Titanic in Belfast. To capture the exact experience of the guest it will be served same menu as 100 years ago and the same music.
Amount of guest boarding the vessel was exact as the original of Titanic 1309 – not including crew set sail form Southampton. Most of the guests are dressed in period costumes for the journey and also the crew as well. Among the guests are relatives of the people who died aboard Titanic. Cruise will include lectures, demonstrations and activities related to the Titanic and its history, according to the cruise itinerary.
Two memorial services will take place during the cruise. The first close to midnight April 14, when the Titanic hit the iceberg, and the second on early April 15, when the ship sank.
Captain Edward J. Smith (seated left), Chief Purser Hugh W. McElroy (standing second from left), Third Officer
Herbert J. Pitman (standing far right) and three unidentified men possibly on Olympic.
Crew and passangers on Titanic with Life jackets
Crew from Cable ship MacKay-Bennett which recovered 306 bodies from the Atlantic following the sinking
