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Voyage retraces Titanic journey

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.

Read entire article at BBC