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Published: 2015-05-07 10:10:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 1092; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 12
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A wreath-casting was part of a ceremony on board modern-day Cunard liner Queen Victoria and came as the ship, on which Mr Harrison serves as a second engineer, paused over the site of the wreck of the Lusitania.
Queen Victoria's Master, Commodore Christopher Rynd, and Cunard chairman David Dingle also cast wreaths.
Other relatives of those who died or survived threw flowers into the sea and the Queen Victoria's whistle sounded.
It was due to sound again later today when passengers from Queen Victoria will be among those attending a Lusitania memorial service at the Irish port of Cobh led by Irish President Michael D Higgins.
The whistle will blow at 2.10pm - the moment the Liverpool-bound Lusitania was torpedoed - and again at 2.28pm - the time the 31,000-tonne vessel sank.
Image: visitcobh.com/index.php/2014/0…
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What a gorgeous photo, I wish so much I was there....
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Yes it was great to be there, it really made what happened seem real, i wasnt expecting it to effect me so much, when Queen Vctoria sounded her horn at 2.10 it i had to hold back the tears!
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I could not have nearly been that brave, I likely would of wept! Such an event must have been so touching.
To see the beauty and the history it has, I am so glad to have heritage from Ireland. It seems like such a privilege.
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Yes there was a party athmosphere there until the sinking time arrived ,then it was amazing to see about 5,000 people stand quietly for 18 minutes between the 2 horn blasts, knowing what the passengers of lusitania were going through all that time 100 years ago
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