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泰坦尼克百年纪念活动专项练习 Titanic’s dead mourned 100 years later in poignant ceremony at sinking site 泰坦尼克号失事百年沉船地点举行纪念 At the shrill sound of a ship’s whistle in the North Atlantic, relatives of some of the more than 1,500 people who died when the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg remembered their ancestorsin a poignant ceremony a century later. On a still, starry night and with little glare from the moon, the memorial cruise ship MS Balmoral floated above the wreckage of the famous ‘unsinkable’ luxury liner precisely 100 years to the day it was destroyed. “At 2:20am all was quiet, as it would have been 100 years ago when it went deathly quiet, when the screaming stopped,” British Titanic historian Philip Littlejohn told the reporters on Sunday. Littlejohn’s grandfather, Alexander Littlejohn, was a first class keeper in charge of lifeboat 13 when the ship began to go down.About 700 people were rescued that night, including his grandfather, but there were too few lifeboats to save the rest. David Haisman, 74, a retired seaman from the English port town of Southampton, mourned the loss of his grandfather who had been on his way to Seattle to start a new life in the United States with his wife and daughter.“I’ve been brought up with the story but now I could feel it,” he said.“My mother used to tell me how she got into lifeboat 14 and her feet became soaked（浸泡） with the 3 to 4 inches of water that remained in the bottom despite bailing（排水）.”The last time she saw her father was when he cupped his hands and shouted “I’ll see you in New York”. The story of the world’s most famous maritime disaster has gripped the world’s imagination, inspiring Hollywood films. While some of those on board the memorial cruise were relatives of the victims, others had paid thousands of pounds in order to retrace the vessel’s fateful journey from Southampton to New York.The ship, the biggest in the world at the time, destroyed in frigid Atlantic waters off Newfoundland on April 15, 1912. On Satur