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Some 1300 passengers set sail on a Titanic memorial cruise to mark 100th anniversary of its sinking.

10 April,2012 04:59 am

Relatives of survivors and those who perished on the doomed Titanic were among the passengers waving goodbye on the memorial cruise ship that set sail from the English port of SouthamptonThere are more than 1,300 passengers aboard the Titanic memorial cruise. It will retrace the ships historic journey before it crashed into an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic ocean in 1912.Philip Littlejohns grandfather Alexander was a 1st class Steward aboard the original Titanic. He survived but was haunted for the rest of his life by those who died.Mary Beth Crocker waited six months to go on her honey moon aboard the Titanic.Weve had an interest in the Titanic for a really long time. We live in a historic district in the Midwest and we love historic preservation, history, costume history, you know all sorts of things like that. So that was one of the main reasons why we came. We also wanted an adventure.While aboard, guests can attend lectures and events that bring new life to the Titanics story, which ended in tragedy with the deaths of 1,514 people.