Titanic Memorial Cruise

[Nick]

I wonder if they will all run about screaming at 2.20 a.m. like 

[Snoopy]

http://titanicmemorialcruise.co.uk/

The memorial cruise left England's south coast on Sunday to follow the Titanic's exact route - via Cherbourg, in north-west France and Cobh - to the spot where the liner went down.

A service is to be held on board at 02:20 GMT next Sunday - 15 April - to mark the moment of the sinking.

Not sure what you guys think about this but to me this seems a bit ridiculous.

Seems those on board talk about their ancestors , whilst all dressed up with a glass of bubbly in hand to go and have a prayer over a watery grave . Is it necessary to 'celebrate' this ?

Are they just in it for the hype ?

I find it all a bit morbid and creepy.

Wait until they get there and the wreaths start going over the side. 

[Snoopy]

Oh and the 15th is Woodstock's Birthday....... Which fact may have some meaning. 

[Nick]

Perhaps they could chuck a few chavs overboard for authenticity 

[Barman]

I bet they are sailing round and round in circles in the Bay of Biscay - nobody on board any the wiserer.... 

[Barman]

Titanic - A Night to remember trailer 1958

 

[Miss Demeanour]

I wonder if they will all run about screaming at 2.20 a.m. like 

That'll be when they start playing Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On 

[Snoopy]

This was on the World Service last night. Can't find it on iPlayer but when it is on the wireless I'd recommend listening to it.
Compelling listening.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17631595

[Nick]

I heard that too 

[Snoopy]

Hard to believe with our modern communications that all those messages were done by Morse Code.
The utter confusion that it demonstrated helps to show why so many perished.

[Pirate]

9pm Discovery+1...Titanic Conspiracies...

[Pirate]

Nice to see Yosser Hughes finally got a job...

Yosser Hughes - Gizza Job - Boys from the Blackstuff

[Miss Demeanour]

How absolutely bloody ironic.

Doesn't appear to be a very fortunate journey ..again   

[Miss Demeanour]

So this 'collective ' remembrance  is complete now then ...

Jane Allen from Devon in south-west England, whose great-uncle perished on the Titanic, said the moment vividly reminded her of the horror of the disaster.
   
"All you could hear was the swell splashing against the side of the ship. You could see the white breakers stretching out to sea," she told the BBC. "You are in the middle of nowhere. And then you look down over the side of the ship and you realize that every man and every woman who didn't make it into a lifeboat had to make that decision, of when to jump or stay on the ship as the lights went out."

And she had to travel out there to get this moment of enlightenment 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

Titanic - A Night to remember trailer 1958

 

This was on the World Service last night. Can't find it on iPlayer but when it is on the wireless I'd recommend listening to it.
Compelling listening.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17631595

I will certainly listen with great interest.  I have mentioned on here before that I have a photograph album of the Boxall family. Joseph Groves Boxhall was the 4th officer on the Titanic, he survived and amongst other things he did with the rest of his life was to be an advisor on A night to remember. Interesting family.