Details for Convention 2013 will appear here, and in the Atlantic Daily Bulletin, in due course.

Here are a selection of the photographs he took.

Mike’s report of the event will appear in the June 2012 edition of the Atlantic Daily Bulletin.

Administrators:

Charles A.Haas

David Hill

Una Reilly

OPENING OF THE MILLVINA DEAN MEMORIAL GARDEN.

The Administrators of the Millvina Fund are pleased to announce that the opening of the Millvina Dean Memorial Garden, in Southampton, will take place at 2.00pm on Thursday, 31^st May 2012.

The Mayor of Southampton will be in attendance, as will members of Millvina’s family. The Garden will be blessed by the vicar of St. Mary’s, the Reverend Julian Davies.

The ceremony will be brief and simple, as we feel Millvina would wish.

Any BTS Members wishing to attend will be very welcome.

The Garden is situated to the left of the entrance to the SeaCity Museum.

The Garden has been created with close co-operation between the Fund and Southampton City Council.

Millvian Dean was the youngest, and final, survivor of the TITANIC disaster.  She sailed from Southampton aboard the ill-fated ship on 10^th April 1912 with her mother, father and brother. Millvina, her mother and her brother were saved, her father was lost.

For years she attended Titanic functions and Society meetings, both here and overseas, until lack of mobility prevented her from travelling in her latter years.

She was the Honorary President of The British Titanic Society.

She was universally loved as a kind, compassionate lady with a great interest in people. She had a lively mind and a keen sense of humour.

Millvina died on 31^st May 2009, the ninety-eighth anniversary of the launch of Titanic.

After a Memorial Service to her in Copythorne Church on 24^th October 2009, her ashes were scattered on the waters of Berth 44, from where the Titanic sailed in 1912.

Note – We do not have any restriction on how many photos we can display here.

We are now busy preparing a report for the June Atlantic Daily Bulletin, but we have already received a number of feedback questionnaires from delegates and here are a selection of comments from them.

I was so impressed with how well organized it all was – well done!

The organisation of this event is outstanding  I persuaded a friend to join me this time and all I had told her was realized.  Absolutely superb as always.  Thank You.

A most memorable experience.  A superb weekend. 

Well done to the organisers an excellent convention appropriate for such a special occasion.

Please use Twitter to follow events at Convention 2012 in realtime @BritTitanicSoc via  www.twitter.com/BritTitanicSoc.

The convention became that busy, that we were unable to post in realtime updates – see the June 2012 issue of the Atlantic Daily Bulletin for a full report on the convention.

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“Intermezzo String Quartet” which comprises Aiden Berry, along with musicians Becky Jay, Theresa Zar, and Becky Benfield, will be playing music early in the evening and during the Gala Dinner.  They will return later to perform again at our memorial service to play “Nearer thy God to Thee”.

We are delighted to have them join us for this very special occasion.

We have chartered for our exclusive use the magnificent Blue Funnel catamaran MV Ocean Scene. During our 90-minute cruise, we plan to replicate the start of Titanic’s one and only voyage, shipping movements permitting.  We intend to visit Ocean Dock to drop a wreath on the water and afterwards will sail past berth 38/39 where the near-collision with the New York occurred. From there we visit berths 106/108, Southampton’s maritime “Death Row,” where both Olympic and Mauretania were laid-up prior to their demise in 1935, and will then spend some time cruising down the River Itchen.

In addition to dropping the society wreath for this centennial year, we thought it would be rather lovely if each member had his or her own individual symbol of remembrance to scatter on the water.  Each person taking part in the river cruise will receive a simple red or white carnation, for casting over the ship’s side.  There will then be a playing of Erin’s Lament on the Uilleann pipes by Steve Turner, an Uilleann piper and reed-maker based in Portsmouth.  Steve was guest tutor at the Na Piobairi Uilleann (Irish Pipers’ Society) gathering in 2011.

We have received requests from members who are not attending the convention as delegates, to join in this.  Any remaining tickets will be sold on our Sales Desk on the Saturday at the convention.

This Black Tie / Titanic / Edwardian themed dinner, is being held in the Mayflower Suite of the hotel, and we are pleased to announce that our event will be attended by ‘Emotive Event Portraits’, based at Bournemouth. They are a specialist events photographers, and are also a member of the Event Photographer Society.

Photographs will be taken in the foyer of the Mayflower Suite, starting at 5pm.

We have been advised of this YouTube video about a new exhibition opening this April in Cherbourg at the Cité de la Mer.