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Your support makes all the difference.With prayers, a hymn and a moment of silence broken by a ship's deep whistle, passengers and crew on a memorial trip marked 100 years to the moment since the Titanic took 1,514 people to a watery grave.
In the north Atlantic, they lined the decks of the MS Balmoral, a cruise ship that has been retracing the route of the doomed liner, at the spot where the Titanic went down in the early hours of 15 April, 1912, after a collision with an iceberg.
Three floral wreaths were cast on to the waves as the ship's whistle sounded in the dark.
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