One of two ships remembering Titanic disaster arrives in Halifax
Posted April 12, 2012 2:03 pm.
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HALIFAX, N.S. – One of two cruise ships scheduled to meet at the site where the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic has arrived in Halifax, Thursday, as part of a commemoration event marking the 100th anniversary of the disaster.
Having left New York earlier this week, the passengers on the ship are scheduled to spend the day exploring the Nova Scotia city’s historical connection to the ship which sunk on April 15, 1912.
Halifax played a central role in the disaster as bodies recovered at sea were brought to the city. It became the final resting place for 150 of the victims.
The cruise has organized a tour for passengers to visit nearby Peggy’s Cove, cemeteries, a restaurant which was a funeral home in 1912, and Titanic exhibits at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.
In attendance at one of the cemeteries was passenger Dorothy Fitzsimons of Arizona, who said her great-grandfather was 23 when he survived the sinking by helping row one of the lifeboats.
“It brings it all back in perspective of what it must have been like for that poor young man to be rowing a boat and looking at the people who weren’t going to survive that – he knows we’re going to drown and die, and knowing he got saved,” she said, adding that seeing the cemetery was the most difficult part of the journey for her.
The other commemorative ship left England earlier this week.
