A holiday company is to retrace the voyage of the Titanic as part of the 100th anniversary of the disaster.The 12-night cruise, with tickets priced from £2,595, will follow the route of the ill-fated ship which sank in April 1912 killing 1,517 people. HM Balmoral will depart Southampton on 8 April 2012, bound for New York, and will pass the point where the Titanic sank when it hit an iceberg, reports The BBC.
Historian David Lawrence said the disaster still "fascinated" people. The liner sank after hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic on its maiden voyage on 15 April 1912, killing 1,517 of the 2,223 people on board.
Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the disaster, who was nine weeks old at the time, died in Southampton in May aged 97.
The cruise will pass Cherbourg on the French coast before calling at the Irish port of Cobh, as the original ship did. It will then sail across the Atlantic, arriving at the Titanic site on April 14/15 where a memorial service will be held.
